I do not think so. The original author still holds the copyright and can place any restrictions on the source he wants when he releases it into the public domain...

No, "public domain" means that all IP rights of the author have been forfeited. At least if Wikipedia's article on the topic is to ...

Rebel wrote: Because using 4 cores in general will speed-up a factor of 3, thus actually they are playing 15min blitz games, a decent TC.

I guess if you run 4 15 min games simultaneously, you would be testing faster than with your current set-up...

OK, clusters are idle so I can run over 500 games at a time. Results so far:


Rank Name Elo + - games score oppo. draws
1 Stockfish 1.8 64bit 2848 15 15 1763 83% 2552 19%
2 Stockfish 1.8a 64bit 2810 14 14 1754 78% 2561 22%
3 Glaurung 2.2 2556 13 13 1638 43% 2619 21%
4 Toga2 2550 14 14 1595 ...