The goofy cloners still exist

[Guenther]

https://github.com/bluefeversoft/vice/t ... Vice11/src

https://github.com/ChessIaCreator/Mikaz ... e/main/src

1. Of course the stupid clone lover site 'Engines Diary' immediately had to pick it up as a new program release
https://chessengines.blogspot.com/2024/ ... ot-10.html

2. The so called developer of Micaz even forgot to remove a few Vice strings (not that it mattered much, because every informed
person/programmer would immediately recognize it as a 1:1 copy)

3. The whole repo is a joke and I hope the SF community is not happy to have such a 'helper' ;)

From the github readme:

hi im a chess ia creator and im here to help stockfish community

if you've got any problem with the engine then DM me in discord: chessysauce

Hehe

[towforce]

Just wondering why someone would do this? What follows is complete speculation:

* there are various "reasonable" reasons - but for each of these, the response would be, "fork, not clone"

* it seems likely that the perpetrator has low self-esteem: he doesn't feel that he's enough as he is. On this basis:

1. "Look - I wrote a chess program"

In this situation, I would choose a simple program to clone. I'd want to be able to explain it if asked at a job interview, or if one of my friends was geeky enough to take a good look at it.

2. "Look - my chess program is in the top 5 in the world"

OK - so my friends are the kind of people who never check anything I tell them! Who knows - maybe they use their time productively?