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Subject: Re: From the Rybka readme file:

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 09:44:50 12/06/05

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On December 06, 2005 at 12:20:21, Graham Banks wrote:

>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.
>>
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>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.
>>
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>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.


Hi Graham, I know of course, but your quote must have had some intention,
otherwise it would have been useless at all for the _specific_
problem and question of the original poster.
It is absolutely clear that you wanted to imply with your quote, that
the user should _not_ use WB for Rybka and that is nonsense.
If you don't agree I see no point for your answer at all,
because it helped Greg not one jota.
Thus, why had the 'messenger' send an at best irrelevant message? :)

Regards,
Guenther



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