FGRL 60 min + 15 sec Rating list - Komodo 10.4

[Ron Langeveld]

Looking at some of Stanisavljevic's other posts on Komodo threads makes it clear that he has an agenda to advance. He has presented very few facts or citations of his own, resorting instead to definitional nitpicking (LOS vs. CFS) which distracts from the real point. What little information he has presented is generally either (a) cherrypicked in order to diminish Komodo's apparent performance, (b) largely irrelevant to the discussion at hand, or (c) both. In at least one case, he has made a claim that was outright false. (http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... ht=#709770)

It is one thing for a poster to prefer one engine over another. It is quite another for that poster to make a pretense at neutrality and present biased facts and statistics in order to make a particular engine/team of developers look bad. This isn't even getting into the personal attacks he has made on the integrity of various developers and testers (including, but not necessarily limited to, Mark Lefler, Larry Kaufman, and Ingo Bauer), which, apart from being rude and unnecessary, also closely resemble accusations made by conspiracy theorists.

To be clear: any arguments and/or information presented by Stanisavljevic--at least regarding new versions of Komodo, against which his bias could not be more obvious--should be regarded with the utmost suspicion. Arguing with such a character is unproductive at best, as it is impossible to change the view of someone who has already decided on what the "truth" is, and counterproductive at worst, since it gives apparent legitimacy to claims which, ideally, should receive no consideration whatsoever. (This is why public figures do not engage with conspiracy theorists.)

+1 Well put!