Moin Mathias,
Matthias Gemuh wrote:Fire, Ivanhoe, RobboLito are not in the list ?
Why then are Strelka, Houdini, Rybka, Protector, etc. in it ?
The question is comming up from time to time and is basicaly answered with my rules but here in more details (Maybe I put this onto my page, but noone is reading condition/rules or remarks anyway)
I did test a few of the mentioned for my private entertainment but do not publish because of:
Ivan and Robo are anonymus authors and I only accept engines with a known author. It is a matter of fairness for the honest authors. Fire with its history is difficult to bring in line with that bid of fairness (and is not the best of the familie anyhow)
I originaly inserted Houdini as the author was the first to be man enough to sign this group of engines with his name (and I admit, today it is hard to ignore the best engine, but that came out long after I included Houdini!)! Same goes for Rybka. I don't like Strelka 2.0 too much, but the author is known AND Fabien (Fruit) even accepted it, I see it as some kind of reference and have no real argument against it. You mentioned Protector, why? The author is known and the source is available. Did I miss something?
Strelka 5 is (officialy) missing, but it is a rip off and the author once claimed here in that fora that he will purposly not obey the GPL (as an answer to my question). And as others it is not the best of its family and woudl be out again after testing. But for sure, that is my weakest point. I simply try to have some common sence here!
There are other Litto-Compiles out there where the author is known but I don't see a reason to test lesser engines as the best of that group is already in AND I am not willing to test one and right after that someone will tell me that THIS other version is 20 ELo better. Another argument is, that I dont want a rating list wich is poluted with many time the same engine (more or less). This would definately distort the ratings and noone with some knowledge want to have that!
Bottom line is: I try to make my list fair, honest and with some common sense!
Btw: It is interesting that the most quoted list basicaly all have this set of rules. It can't be that bad as other lists exsits and do not drive the known ones to extinction. If this will happen in the future, so be it ...
I hope this helps a little to understand my motivation.
Bye
Ingo
PS: I already see some Rumpelstiltskin crying and stamping his right foot
