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Subject: Re: New Star-Engine on playchess - Cyklop 2.0 ?

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 05:34:33 01/20/06

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On January 19, 2006 at 06:43:56, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Hi Eduard,
>
>> Is a new star "Cyklop 2.0" born?
>
>I doubt this, this the second time where you found a new engine at playchess and
>afterwards we did not read much about them.
>In my humble opinion it is very likely that they are all some sort of clones of
>one of the Fruit derivates... Of course I would like to be proven wrong.
>
>In German:
>Ich bezweifel das. Das ist das zweite mal, daß Du auch schach.de eine neue
>Engine gefunden hast und danach hat man nicht mehr viel davon gehört.
>Meiner Meinung ist es sehr wahrscheinlich, daß dies alles eine Art von Clone
>sind die auf Fruit oder einer der Fruit-Derivate beruhen... Natürlich würde es
>mich freuen, wenn mir jemand das Gegenteil beweisen könnte...
>
>Gruß, Thomas

I tested several moves simulating a very fast machine and Rybka played always
the same moves as 'fantasy' Cyklop 2.0 (of course I started from pgn
moves, which are not obvious).
IIRC it is forbidden at PlayChess to fake names of real programs
with fantasy names?

Guenther



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