Is there a single core engine ...

[IWB]

... which would be between Loop 13.5/6 and Rybka 3 mp in the IPON list?

It has to fullfill the folowing conditions:

1. There is no successor to that engine already in the List
2. The Author is known (a real person)
3. No (known) branch of an open source engine
4. UCI

I want to have a diverse rating list as possible to have a good field of opponent to play against. It is not usefull to have 20 Fruits in there (there are already enough)

Thanks for any good proposal in advance!

Bye
Ingo

[Brunetti]

Protej.

Alex

[IWB]

Protej.

Alex

If there is an engine called Protej could you please post a link.

In case you are refering to Protector, that is a Fruit/Toga branch.

Thx
Ingo

[Brunetti]

If there is an engine called Protej could you please post a link.

The link is my WWW button. It fulfills all your conditions, but it's between Loop and Rybka just in alphabetical order

Alex

[IWB]

... but it's between Loop and Rybka just in alphabetical order
Alex

OK, you got me ... At least I downloaded it!

Ciao
Ingo

[Eelco de Groot]

Protej.

Alex

If there is an engine called Protej could you please post a link.

In case you are refering to Protector, that is a Fruit/Toga branch.

Thx
Ingo

Same as with Rybka, if the author just would never have mentioned Fruit or Toga in his read.me, he could have saved himself a lot of trouble. People are being punished for their honesty if they say that they are using similar ideas, but not identical code, nor even just functionally/algorithmically identical code. Protector is open source so that makes it even worse. Calling it a branch of Toga is different than calling it a clone I admit but I still feel this does not do the program justice.

I can't say that I have studied Protector's code, just read through one of the older versions months ago, but I just did not recognize anything there that would make me say anything like

a) "Protector is a further development of Fruit but still has many things the same."

I would choose option b) if given the choice:

b) "Protector was started from scratch just still using some ideas in common with a lot of modern engines".

I think that would be fairer to say of this program.

Regards, Eelco

[Dann Corbit]

Single core is *so* 20th century.

[IWB]

Single core is *so* 20th century.

I am 20th century ...

But I take an MP engine as well, I just run it first with one thread or process - when it is good enough it gets an MP rating as well. Read my "Rules"

Bye
Ingo

[Graham Banks]

In case you are refering to Protector, that is a Fruit/Toga branch.

Thx
Ingo

Hi Ingo,

for what it's worth, I've always treated Protector as an original engine rather than a derivative.
However, discussions on this issue are best carried out elsewhere.

Cheers,
Graham.