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Subject: Re: From the Rybka readme file:

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 07:34:27 12/06/05

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Greg Simpson:
>>I don't have "such problems" in Winboard, I have a problem with one game out of
>>40 with Rybka, and none out of thousands with Fruit, Toga, Crafty, Ruffian and
>>Zappa.  I don't think the problem is Winboard related.

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On December 06, 2005 at 03:05:48, Graham Banks wrote:
>Winboard support: Ditto - not supported. This protocol contradicts my notion of
>what an engine should do.

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With all respect Graham this is a nonsense answer
with a nonsensical quote.

I beta tested Rybka for Vas since > 1.5 years under WB and most
people are aware that Polyglot gives 1:1 support for WB.
(Vas also never saw any reason to complain and was happy about
my bug reports _regarding_ Rybka until today)
If you would follow your reasoning you should never test WB
programs in Chessbase(but you do with the WB2UCI adapter
plus the UCI.dll adapters from CB, which always had
reported dozens of bugs - not even speaking of all other
WB adapters ever created by SMK and CB which were
even buggier), especially your beloved Chessmaster
personalities.

I never experienced any problems in 1000s of games with
UCI programs using Polyglot in WB. Why do you think
Fabien had created it with the feedback of Leo and me,
if not allowing his Fruit play the best way in WB?

May be you were confused by either messages from unexperienced
users, or by users reporting problems _on chess servers_?
(Polyglot was never intended to work with chess servers and
AFAIK all problems were timestamp problems or again user
errors)

Have you even tried to reproduce the problem of Greg in
CB or Arena?

Regards,
Guenther





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