Author: Zappa
Date: 07:20:18 02/15/06
So I dropped by to see how my old buddies in CCC were doing, and found a massive flamewar :) This is far more to my liking than dry test results, so I thought I'd weigh in with a few comments. The majority of members in CCC seem to be unable to think rationally about Rybka. I saw the following argument about 500X: "Vasik is violating the charter" "But Rybka is so awesome". Clearly this is complete idiocy. The law is intended to apply to everyone equally, regardless of whether or not they have an awesome engine. I left (and this is not a coming back post) because I didn't like reading tons of testing posts. However, the majority of people here appear to like it here. From what I read in the flamewar Skinner seems correct that Vasik violated the charter, but perhaps rather than crucifying Vasik (or Skinner), the charter should be amended so the club serves the interest of the majority. It really seems like the majority of people don't mind his "commerical posts" - so what's the problem? I also read Enrico's post on Rybka's nodecount. Vasik claimed it was the result of a bug. I read that as "my node count obfuscation algorithm has a bug and will be fixed posthaste". If you look at Enrico's numbers, its obvious that Rybka is really searching at 2-3M+ nps on big hardware. So, Vasik, please tell me: why would you would want to hide the node count of Rybka? anthony
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