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I believe that's for usual companies. Not a high profile ones. You are mixing apples and oranges. High profile companies hardly pay higher salaries. The difference with high profile companies is in stock options. However, the value of stock options is a very variable category that is heavily depend...

Would it not be a lot simpler for any engine hobbyist to have available an already developed design and then try to improve on its rating. Scientists and Engineers are using this concept for their research when working on their projects. They will use the latest most up to date data, why then can e...

illogical.c #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { char answer; printf("Is Rybka the strongest chess engine? Enter y or n: "); scanf("%c",&answer); printf("", answer,"\n"); if (answer == 'y') ruleOne(); else ruleTwo(); return 0; } ruleOne() { prin...

That will repeat, for sure, but it gives wrong results. You won't know which of the two programs is better, since N plies to one program is not the same as N plies to another. If you try to measure improvements, any change that makes your tree larger (more extensions, fewer reductions, etc) or any ...

Which is an extremely good and legitimate reason to provide the speed of a program in Ampere/Coulomb, which is what I would do if I had a commercial engine, so if someone get their noses where they should not put them, they at least would be scared to be electrocuted. ;-) It is quite possible your ...

What is the value of NPS? It's an irrelevant number, except for scale anyway. Not really. If you are implementing smp, or trying to optimize your compile, it's more then important. Finally, if a man fails to trim his hedge, should this be a reason to burgle his house? Interesting wording, (un)fortu...

slobo wrote:How do you know Rolf is a sectarian and not a businessman?

If he is a businessman that only means Vas is a terrible businessman. Which on the other hand is nothing new .

It is fairly simple. Just multiply nps that you see with 14. The same thing as with ply where you add 3 to get the real one. What Rybka 3 is doing when reporting nps? It first takes number of nodes only for white and then divides it with 7. In total the value is about 14 times smaller then the real ...

Franklin, there is simply no point. Here, only a specialist can help, and certainly not a chess specialist. Most of the people at the forum have already realized it.

The thing I don't understand is why you tested it with pondering on, when Robbo didn't have pondering implemented in version 0.085c2. So you gave an unfair advantage to Rybka.
If you want to test with pondering on, then try newer version of Robbi like e4.