Julien,JuLieN wrote: Dmitri might be a newcomer in the computer chess field, but:
1- he is proficient and talented in programming, and obviously enthusiastic and good-willing regarding computer chess.
2- either here, on Facebook or in nTCEC I've always seen him being a very nice person who never said or did anything wrong to anybody.
Despite that, Dmitri has been given quite a harsh treatment by some older users here since he registered a few months ago, and this makes me (and other persons) quite sad. Other people already left the forum because of that, and I myself lost much of my own enthusiasm.
Bottom line is: there are human beings behind the users, so, people, think twice before you fall on someone.
(@Marco: this remark is not targeted at you, it's a general remark to everybody, as I've seen such things happening quite a lot. People doing that don't seem to be bad people, but I think they don't realize how strong their language can be sometimes.)
I don't know if you really believe what you are writing, or you just feel that it's your role as a moderator to be so politically correct.
Regarding Firenzina, they got less than they deserved. So Matthew is untouchable because he is young (I'm bored ogf hearing this), and Dimitri because he is polite?
Now let's look at the facts. They took *years* of hard work by Kranium and Sentilel (as well the the Ippolit folks before them), just created a git repo, and called it another name (Firenzina) and started spamming the talkchess forum about it. Firenzina this, Firenzina that, there was not even a single line of code modified, besides a few trivial non functional code patches by Matthew. Have a look on github, but that's not the kind of work you would expect from a PhD graduate (Matthew I can understnad he's only 13 years old).
And now the same thing is happenning with IvanHoe. Again have a look on github: the onle thing that has been changed is the version number. If you think these projects are a great contribution to the community, please explain, I'm all ears!
