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The facts remain. Why should an idiot pay 99 euro for something he can dowload in the internet for free without chessbase logo ?! Because albert silver or frederic friedel said in a marketing campaign that fat fritz II “will change your life” ?? The uneducated mass maybe buys it. I remember when fr...

Some of the derivatives/forks like Bluefish, SugaR and ShashChess are legal and do bring value in the form of an enhanced style of play. I don't mind seeing them listed on rating lists. I think 'legal' derivatives being shown on ratings lists is fine as long as it is clearly shown what they are a d...

Takes Hiarcs about the same time as Stockfish 11:15/121-89: 1.Bd7, 1.4G nodes (14.8M nps), 132.8M tbhits, 16GB hash 0:02: -1.00/16 1.Bd5 Kc8 2.Bxa8 Rc4 3.Kxg7 Kd7 4.Bf3 b4 5.Bd1 Kc6 6.Kxh6 Rc1 7.Bb3 Rg1 8.Bd4 Rg3 9.Bf7 Rd3 10.Bxa7 Kb5 0:02: -1.03/19 1.Bd5 Kc8 2.Bxa8 Rc4 3.Bxg7 Ra4 4.Kxh6 Rxa6+ 5.Kg5...

Really? https://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/houdini_6_pro_multiprocessor_version I phrased myself poorly ("sold" should have been "sold as"). I meant to say that they were not sold as being stockfish-based code, therefore it would be hard for list-makers to label them stockfish on rating-lists u...

I'm not surprised about this, as CGET is another rating list that treats Fire and Houdini as separate entities from Stockfish as well. I think both Houdini and Fire were not sold and openly admitting they were StockFish?? Really? https://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/houdini_6_pro_multiprocessor_v...

With the notable exception of Komodo, I think the incredible success of Stockfish has killed off commercial engines. With regards to selling just an engine you are probably right. I imagine CB only makes a fraction of its money from engine sales. Most of their income probably comes from the other p...

The ICCF still has some postal tournaments https://www.iccf.com/EventsAnnouncements.aspx

I haven't noticed any fragmentation after some weeks large pages use. I see it all the time. If I want to use 100GB hash with large pages, I usually have to reboot. Dann, You may want to give this a try: https://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-memory-optimizer.html On my 64GB machine the optimization take...

If anyone has data that could make the estimated rating of Fritz 2 on 1994 more accurate, please provide it. This is from The SSDF list: Rating + - Games Won Oppo 289 Fritz 2 486/33 MHz 2032 29 -30 547 44% 2072 Their full list is here https://ssdf.bosjo.net/long.txt