how an engine survives?

[MM]

zappa, naum, chiron, onno, shredder....finished ....''ideas''?

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[Dan Astrachan]

zappa, naum, chiron, onno, shredder....finished ....''ideas''?

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All the engines you mentioned are commercial programs. Many of the strongest chess engines these days are free: Critter, Stockfish, Ivanhoe and Ippolit derivates. Since all of them could beat any human being, why would you bother paying for something else?

[Graham Banks]

zappa, naum, chiron, onno, shredder....finished ....''ideas''?

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Zappa - finished. Code given to Zach Wegner who is developing it further under the name Rondo.

Naum - supposedly finished too, but never say never.

Chiron - still being developed. My understanding is that Ubaldo will release an update when he feels he's been able to make a worthwhile improvement.

Onno - finished. Website removed. Engine no longer available.

Shredder - new version will be released, I'm picking when Stefan feels he's made a worthwhile improvement.

[MM]

zappa, naum, chiron, onno, shredder....finished ....''ideas''?

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Zappa - finished. Code given to Zach Wegner who is developing it further under the name Rondo.

Naum - supposedly finished too, but never say never.

Chiron - still being developed. My understanding is that Ubaldo will release an update when he feels he's been able to make a worthwhile improvement.

Onno - finished. Website removed. Engine no longer available.

Shredder - new version will be released, I'm picking when Stefan feels he's made a worthwhile improvement.

Thank you Graham. But is it more difficult nowadays to find something new in chess programming?

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[MM]

zappa, naum, chiron, onno, shredder....finished ....''ideas''?

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All the engines you mentioned are commercial programs. Many of the strongest chess engines these days are free: Critter, Stockfish, Ivanhoe and Ippolit derivates. Since all of them could beat any human being, why would you bother paying for something else?

I understand what you mean and honestly i think it is one of the reason why several programmers left or reduced heavily their work on chess.

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[Vinvin]

zappa, naum, chiron, onno, shredder....finished ....''ideas''?

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I sometimes dream about a recompile (and UCI and 64 bit) version of Yace !!!!!

Please, Dieter, if you read this , do it for me !!!

Yace still incredible in endgames !!
http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Yace

[mhalstern]

Is Rondo ever going commercial? I believe I have asked this question in the past.

[Graham Banks]

Is Rondo ever going commercial? I believe I have asked this question in the past.

Wouldn't it just be Zappa with some modifications, just under a different name?
Wouldn't that make it like some other engines that get given a hard time around here?

[Harvey Williamson]

Is Rondo ever going commercial? I believe I have asked this question in the past.

Wouldn't it just be Zappa with some modifications, just under a different name?
Wouldn't that make it like some other engines that get given a hard time around here?

err no, as Anthony gave his code to Zach. Did Fabien gift his to anyone?

[Graham Banks]

Is Rondo ever going commercial? I believe I have asked this question in the past.

Wouldn't it just be Zappa with some modifications, just under a different name?
Wouldn't that make it like some other engines that get given a hard time around here?

err no, as Anthony gave his code to Zach. Did Fabien gift his to anyone?

I wasn't referring to Rybka.

Besides, not all programmers seem to agree on that one anyway.

Faien gifted his source code to the community to study and learn from.