Can I ask why do you think it is a joke ?Sergei Markoff wrote:I think the Ippolit is the joke by Vasik or by people that Vasik provided by his sources.Christopher Conkie wrote:Do you agree with Osipov's opinion that Ippolit is a disassembled Rybka?
I just looked at Ippolit sources, it looks clearly like a joke. Some clever people laughing on some cospiracy-theory moroons. I'm also enjoying throlling here because today I don't beleive in computer chess community any more.
For what I can see it is a clearly partially obfuscated source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscated_code)
But the reason some obfuscated code of uncertain origin has been posted I don't think it is for joking.
Rybka author lives with the earnings from his code, so I would tend to exclude he posts its secret work, although in an obfuscated form, just for joking.
Someone else could have posted an obfscated source of a disassembled program (and keeping the real and clear source in his pocket...until now at least).
But if I were the original author of that code and I make a living out of that I for sure don't see any joke in it. On the contrary I very probably would see a threat, a sign, a kind of message that someone wants to send to me....for sure not a joke.