Do you watch Carlsen and tell everyone around you, "don't worry he will fall someday"The word "fall" indicates that the particular engine is no more at the top of the particular rating list.......
Bearing in mind this definition,it's not a strange terminology Shimon,it's simply a fact......
Dr.D
did you do it with tiger woods, Michael Jordan, Mohammed Ali, Jimmy Johnson, George ST. Pierre, etc....
why would you just keep telling people that a certain program or a certain person is going to fall?
No one in my past kept telling people, "just wait Chessmaster will fall"
I have purchased every program in the past, and this time I refused the discount upgrade because of my appreciation for the program.
Robert Houdart and Vas are temporary, just passing through, they wont be here long. Look do I have to list all of the badasses, no I don't----Ed in his time was a badass at the top of his game but he is out of energy and ideas, what about Hyatt, damn, do we have to go there, a PHD, a whole life of chess accomplishments, at one time Hyatt had the best and was the best, but his time at the top is over, it takes a huge amount of time and energy to tune plus having new and good ideas, we are lucky just to have him here to answer questions, and all of the other badasses that have written programs even if they are only 1700 to 2600....but and this is a big but...look at the past history of improvements, no one has done what Vas and Robert Houdart has done for me and most others, of course Shredder and Junior were fun, damn many many hours of fun I got out of all of my programs, but when Rybka came along I could tell I had a big gun, it was different from all of my other programs, I could create a new ID at any chess server and in two days be at the highest rating with top hardware, I could not do it with other programs at the time. With Shredder and Tiger with a good book and good hardware I could slowly get to the top, then Houdini, Just go look at all of the badasses at chessbase, I mean the badass operators and owners, they will only play with the best, best book best hardware, best program, those top guys are only there for the blood, ask one of them to use Junior, Shredder, Rybka, etc....wont happen.
My point is, For gamers, and some others that only want the best, if someone else does not step up, we could be stuck with Houdin 3 elo for a long time if we lose Robert Houdart. We probably are stuck with the final version of Rybka forever. Do any of the existing programmers have the ability to improve Houdini or Rybka elo...doubt it.
ask yourself, when Robert Houdart and Vas are gone, who is left and what have they shown us they can do to raise a program above the very top elo strength, so far all of the other programmers have peaked out, they are out of ideas for strength. of course they have the free code that is floating around but it takes a lot of energy to implement and tune---and that is only if they can, many cannot.
I have read every post on code stealing and I have read both sides.
It seems Rybka was reverse-engineered and put on the internet as open source as Ippolit or Robbolitto, If I was in the business, I would say sorry Vas that that happened, and then I would use the open source.
It seems you Deeb have appointed yourself the task of being MR anti Houdart. I don't know what your qualifications are to assume this role. why didn't ED appoint himself, why didn't Hyatt appoint himself, what about Critters author, why doesn't he do it?
I hope you and others don't run off Robert Houdart before his time is up.
and another thing, I don't consider your reply an attack.
It is not how much you can take, it is how much you can take and still keep moving forward without taking it personal.
kgburcham
[just to be sure, it was a stupid old pun. 100%]). Good Luck.
Sorry to be off-topic, but when I read posts like these quoted I really get lost about the people interests in this forum. 
indicating the one hight is not alone!!