Strelka and Sergei Markoff

[lex]

There appears to be some doubts about the identity of Sergei Markoff and his examing the Strelka sources.

I have not been following the Strelka discussion, the only reason I am posting is Sergei asked me to confirm he is really him. As we have a long time business relation I gladly do him this favor.

Lex
(Lokasoft)

[Dann Corbit]

There appears to be some doubts about the identity of Sergei Markoff and his examing the Strelka sources.

I have not been following the Strelka discussion, the only reason I am posting is Sergei asked me to confirm he is really him. As we have a long time business relation I gladly do him this favor.

Lex
(Lokasoft)

It will be very hard to convince me that Strelka is not doing something underhanded. Why all the effort to hide the true nature of the code? It certainly comes at a performanc cost. Since the effort to reverse engineer the assembly of a chess program will be commensurate with writing an engine from scratch, I smell a rat. I have seen this technique twice before, and both times it was to conceal a clone. I am reminded of a Bible passage:

(Psalm 26:4)  4 I have not sat with men of untruth; And with those who hide what they are I do not come in.

[Dann Corbit]

Another point:

Who is it that writes an A+ chess engine and a D- Winboard interface for it?

The code quality of the engine is supreme. The Winboard interface looks like it was written by a novice.

[Karlo Bala]

Another point:

Who is it that writes an A+ chess engine and a D- Winboard interface for it?

The code quality of the engine is supreme. The Winboard interface looks like it was written by a novice.

It is also interesting that Strelka and Rybka use almost same amount of memory.
Strelka: mem usage 46,620k page faults 11,640
Rybka1.0: mem usage 46,512k page faults 11,613