Strelka 5 by Yuriy Osipov

[Houdini]

This is not joke. I sent to your email sources of Strelka 5. Waiting for your response.

Nope, didn't get anything at houdini@cruxis.be .

I tried twice to send. From jury_osipov@mail.ru and jury_osipov@yahoo.com

Your file has arrived now.
I'm not going to make any other comment than that it's quite hilarious, and that Richard Vida's version was better .

Cheers,
Robert

[SchachProfi]

You have a strange sense of justice when you call it a rant when

- someone points out that you have taken Robbolito/Ippolit code without acknowledging/crediting the original authors
- someone points out that you persuaded a Houdini source code to the public but never delivered
- someone points out that your V2.0-installers try to send the half harddisk to your website (and you can be glad that i didn't buy&try myself, i would sue you down to your knees)
- someone points out that you're an active member of Ippolit- and a "pirates"-chess-fora?
- etc. ...

Don't get me wrong, i have highest respect for what you have achieved with Houdini... you put code-puzzle-pieces together and delivered the by far best Ippolit-compile of all even adding valuable features, still credit has to be given were credit is due... and the core of Houdini is <5% your work and >95% those of others.

Alex

[Houdini]

You really sound like a broken record...

[kranium]

You really sound like a broken record...

broken record?
or maybe the 'truth' ringing in your ears...

yes i'm sure you are in a complete state of denial,
and simply caught up in the sheer fantasy of it all...
but it is what it is...
and we all know what it is, and can prove it.

Shall I present the evidence here and now?
Ik beloof dat ik zal het kort en zoet ('short and sweet') voor u maken.

[tomgdrums]

Well - that's not exactly the problem. The issue is it's output is a little unusual, and it doesn't report pv. A typical single line from the engine looks like

info depth 8 score cp 24 time 19 nodes
0 nps 16455 pv (null)

So analysis doesn't work and has exposed a SCID bug, but it appears to work in Scid vs. PC tournaments. Just one game so far - it cleans up Ivanhoe.

[Event "Scid vs. PC"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2011.10.19"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ivanhoe"]
[Black "Strelka"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl "1/1"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.O-O d6 6.d3 O-O 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bxf6
Qxf6 9.Nd5 Qd8 10.c3 a6 11.a4 Ba7 12.a5 Ne7 13.Ne3 Ng6 14.g3 c6 15.Re1 Qf6
16.Nd2 Be6 17.Bxe6 fxe6 18.Qe2 Qf7 19.Kg2 d5 20.h4 d4 21.cxd4 Bxd4 22.Nf3
Rad8 23.Nxd4 Rxd4 24.Nc4 Qc7 25.Rad1 c5 26.Rb1 Ne7 27.b4 cxb4 28.Rxb4 Nc6
29.Rb2 Qd8 30.Rd1 Rf7 31.Rdb1 Rdd7 32.Rb6 Nd4 33.Qd1 Qf6 34.R1b2 Nf3 35.
Rd6 Rc7 36.Qe2 Kh7 37.Rb1 Qg6 38.Kh1 Qh5 39.Qf1 g5 40.Qh3 gxh4 41.g4 Qg6
42.Qg2 Qf6 43.Rdb6 Rfd7 44.R6b3 Qf4 45.Qh3 Kg8 46.Ra1 Rd4 47.Rc3 Rcd7 48.
Nb2 Rg7 49.Nc4 Kh7 50.Ne3 Rf7 51.Qg2 Ng5 52.Nc4 Rfd7 53.Nb2 Qd2 54.Rb3 Qc2
55.Raa3 h3 56.Qg1 Nf3 57.Qf1 Nd2 58.Qe2 Qc1+ 59.Kh2 Rf7 60.Rc3 Qxb2 61.
Kxh3 Qb1 62.Kg2 Nf3 63.Qf1 Qxf1+ 64.Kxf1 Nd2+ 65.Ke2 Nb1 66.Ke3 Nxa3 67.
Rxa3 Rb4 68.f3 Rb1 69.d4 exd4+ 70.Kxd4 Rf1 71.Rc3 R1xf3 72.Rc8 R3f4 73.Ke5
Kg7 74.Rc4 Rxg4 75.Kxe6 h5 76.Kd5 h4 77.Rc3 Rg5+ 78.e5 Re7 79.Kd6 Rexe5
80.Rh3 Re4 81.Ra3 Kf6 82.Kc7 Rg7+ 83.Kd8 Rg3 84.Ra2 h3 85.Kc7 Rg7+ 86.Kd6
Rg2 87.Ra1 h2 88.Rf1+ Kg5 89.Rh1 Rh4 90.Kc7 Rg1 91.Rxh2 Rxh2 92.Kb6 Rb1+
93.Kc7 Rh7+ 94.Kd6 Rc1 95.Kd5 Kf4 96.Kd6 Rc6+ 97.Kd5 Rd7#
{White Time 4806, Black Time 22065}
0-1

Hi!

How do you like Scid vs pc as a database application? Can you do searches by material (not position-but by raw material?)

How about making books and repertoire databases?

Thanks!

[kranium]

You really sound like a broken record...

broken record?
or maybe the 'truth' ringing in your ears...

yes i'm sure you are in a complete state of denial,
and simply caught up in the sheer fantasy of it all...
but it is what it is...
and we all know what it is, and can prove it.

Shall I present the evidence here and now?
Ik beloof dat ik zal het kort en zoet ('short and sweet') voor u maken.

Very unfortunate in this case...it's clearly a wolf in sheep's clothing!

[Graham Banks]

This is not joke. I sent to your email sources of Strelka 5. Waiting for your response.

Nope, didn't get anything at houdini@cruxis.be .

I tried twice to send. From jury_osipov@mail.ru and jury_osipov@yahoo.com

Your file has arrived now.
I'm not going to make any other comment than that it's quite hilarious, and that Richard Vida's version was better .

Cheers,
Robert

Too cryptic for me.

[John_F]

it plays much different like other chess programs i have in the moment.

it is not playing like houdini, not playing like rybka or any other program i know.

Is this still your impression of Strelka 5's playing style? (After presumably playing more games.) If I remember correctly, another poster thought that playing more games between Strelka and Houdini was not worth the bother because the two engines were too similar.

[mclane]

it plays much different like other chess programs i have in the moment.

it is not playing like houdini, not playing like rybka or any other program i know.

Is this still your impression of Strelka 5's playing style? (After presumably playing more games.) If I remember correctly, another poster thought that playing more games between Strelka and Houdini was not worth the bother because the two engines were too similar.

yes. still my opinion. look e.g. the following game:

[Event "40/120"]
[Site "Atom netbook"]
[Date "2011.10.19"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Strelka 5"]
[Black "Houdini 2.0 w32"]
[ECO "B85"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 {0s} c5 {book 0s} 2. Nf3 {15s} d6 {book 0s} 3. d4
{11s} cxd4 {book 0s} 4. Nxd4 {9s} Nf6 {book 0s} 5. Nc3
{12s} a6 {book 0s} 6. Be2 {10s (g3)} e6 {book 0s} 7. O-O
{9s} Be7 {book 0s} 8. f4 {11s} O-O {book 0s} 9. a4 {12s}
Nc6 {+0.02/20 8:00m} 10. Kh1 {31s (Be3)} Bd7 {+0.09/20
4:34m} 11. Be3 {2:18m} Rc8 {+0.06/20 7:17m} 12. Bf3 {32s
(Qd2)} Nb4 {-0.04/21 15:24m} 13. e5 {6:06m} Nfd5 {0.00/21
0s} 14. Nxd5 {2:31m} Nxd5 {-0.04/22 4:16m} 15. Bxd5 {8:24m}
exd5 {-0.04/22 0s} 16. Qf3 {2:47m} Qa5 {+0.03/20 6:49m}
17. c3 {8:17m (Rad1)} Rc4 {0.00/18 3:42m} 18. h3 {10:08m}
h6 {0.00/20 5:13m} 19. Bg1 {5:32m (Qg3)} Re8 {-0.05/19
3:47m} 20. Rae1 {15:53m (Rfe1)} Bf8 {-0.19/19 2:40m} 21. e6
{6:05m} fxe6 {-0.15/20 0s} 22. f5 {6:15m} e5 {-0.23/21 0s}
23. f6 {4:13m} Kh7 {-0.42/22 18:18m} 24. Qd3+ {1:35m
(fxg7)} e4 {-0.59/20 8:03m} 25. Qg3 {2:40m} g6 {-0.59/21
0s} 26. f7 {10:00m} Re5 {-0.88/21 0s} 27. Rf6 {18s} Rg5
{-0.74/18 3:06m} 28. Qxd6 {3s} Qd8 {-1.19/17 2:04m} 29. Ne6
{1:25m} Bxd6 {-1.71/18 1:49m} 30. Nxd8 {1:42m} Bf8
{-1.41/19 0s} 31. g4 {5:46m} Rc8 {-1.51/19 5:02m} 32. Ne6
{6:28m (Nxb7)} Re5 {-2.86/18 2:53m} 33. Nxf8+ {35s} Rxf8
{-3.93/21 1:26m} 34. Bc5 {3:17m} Kg7 {-4.28/22 2:53m}
35. Bxf8+ {1:57m (Rb6)} Kxf8 {-2.79/20 2:35m} 36. Rxg6
{5:17m} Kxf7 {-2.77/21 0s} 37. Rxh6 {47s} Bc6 {-2.94/20
4:11m} 38. b3 {6:12m} d4 {-3.11/21 0s} 39. cxd4 {1:00m} Rd5
{-3.10/22 2:48m} 40. Rd1 {3:37m} e3 {-3.12/20 0s} 41. Kg1
{3:34m} e2 {-3.18/21 5s} 42. Re1 {1:49m} 1-0

[stevenaaus]

No crashes here. I must have run Strelka a couple of dozen times without any issue.

Core2Quad 9400, Linux 2.6.33.4 #13 SMP PREEMPT i686, TimeControl 1 minute + 1 second

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                   Score     Stre Ivan Komo
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 1: Strelka       7.0 /  8   XXXX 111= 111=
 2: Ivanhoe       3.0 /  8   000= XXXX 10=1
 3: Komodo 2.03   2.0 /  8   000= 01=0 XXXX
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12 games: +4 =3 -5