Can Houdini+Critter+ Stockfish+Komodo be Combined?

[pichy]

Can Houdini+Critter+ Stockfish and Komodo be combined by the same way the Bonanza+Gekisashi+ GPS and YSS were combined to create AKARA?

It is amazing to see how AKARA select the best move based on vote as it is explained here by analazing its log file.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUnbzhnDIvA

[JuLieN]

Jorge, read your PMs, please

[fern]

Maybe it can be done if we could also combine Shakespeare, Joyce, Anatole France and Hemingway in just one novel.

Fern

[syzygy]

It is of course possible to feed all engines the same position and then pick the move that has a plurality of engine votes. How strong the resulting system would be compared to the individual engines I do not know.

The result would probably be prettier, but less interesting, than a novel written by letting Shakespeare, Joyce, Anatole France and Hemingway vote on each next word

[fern]

To put any number of programs giving votes for a move and then having a simple device to play the most voted is not problem at at all, but there is in that nothing like a fusion of ideas or whatever, just a democratic process. And certainly what we could get is not the "best" move as a supposedly result of a common acumen. "Best" depends of the parameter of what-is-good or bad that comes from some architectural design.
Fern

[karger]

There was a version a few years where the author directly combined Grapefruit and Cyclone.

[fern]

and it was better than any of those separated?

Fern

[S.Taylor]

Maybe it can be done if we could also combine Shakespeare, Joyce, Anatole France and Hemingway in just one novel.

Fern

Mix creationists plus non-creationists plus tomato juice.
Then you MUST get to the truth!!!
lol

[karger]

Grapecyclone was never released by the author with source code and GPL license. It was only released on the author's website as an exe. It was tested to be about 2900 elo, with a very aggressive balanced style of play.

[pichy]

To put any number of programs giving votes for a move and then having a simple device to play the most voted is not problem at at all, but there is in that nothing like a fusion of ideas or whatever, just a democratic process. And certainly what we could get is not the "best" move as a supposedly result of a common acumen. "Best" depends of the parameter of what-is-good or bad that comes from some architectural design.
Fern

I feel like joking a little bit too, but my memory is trying to remember that around 1993 a three brains consisting of Chessmachine King (programmer Johan de Koning), Mephisto Lyon (programmer Richard Lang) and operator Dr.Ingo Althöfer, a German mathematician and chess amateur rated 1960 at the time. Third brain Althöfer selected one of the moves computed by the engines or played the move both programs agreed upon. In the 1993 Aegon tournament 3-Hirn scored 4 out of 6, with a TPR of 2401. Win against Nico Kuyf, draw against GM Vlastimil Hort, draw against Alexander Münninghof (Euwe's biographer), win against WIM Jessica Harmsen, win against Michiel Wind and loss against Bronstein in the last round.

PS: That was with three weak engines, imagine what 3 top engines and a human brain selecting the best move can accomplish and for the human, GM Larry Kaufman replacing Komodo to select the best move would be just fine.