Frank Quisinsky wrote: If Rybka 1 have nothing to do with Fruit Vas had six years time to clear the situation.
Okay, this is going to be controversial, can be fun anyway, so let's have it
The right to silence is a fundamental right in court not to incriminate one self, or more subtle in his case not to talk (and explain) about his secrets that put him on top for quite some time. Silence doesn't mean (a sign of) guilt. In the end code decides if he is guilty or not.
Although I never met Vas in person due to my email contacts and his general behaviour in public I learned a bit about how he looks at things and he is not an every day person. Statements like:
when I began with chess programming in 2003 I already knew I would go commercial I would dominate the rating lists. Think about that for a moment.
Take for instance the Sven-Vas correspondence about the origin of Ippolit, Sven asking specific questions that would proof Vas' claim Ippolit being Rybka in disguise. You see the same pattern as with the RF case, he doesn't answer Sven and remains vague and in the end you know nothing more than before. This while it was in his own interest to clear the case.
So what goes on in the mind of the person Vasik Raijlich?
Here are some options:
1. From a commercial perspective he doesn't want to give anyone information, not the tiniest bit;
2. He is arrogant, if he states Ippolit=Rybka you just have to believe him, period, likewise in the R/F case;
3. In the end the programmers figured it out themselves, that Ippolit is a Rybka clone and maybe he relied on that in the R/F case;
4. He doesn't trust anyone. Not even me, the latter I know for sure.
So place your bets
Would not be my choice, I would defend myself to death to such slander.
