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Subject: Re: From the Rybka readme file:

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 09:20:21 12/06/05

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On December 06, 2005 at 10:34:27, Günther Simon wrote:

>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


Hi Guenther,

what I posted was directly from the Rybka readme file. They were not my words.
Please don't shoot the messenger,

Regards, Graham.




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