A new UCI engine ???

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Sylwy
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A new UCI engine ???

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Hi all !

Today I have found on a Polish site a new engine : QN
It's an UCI engine ( after Arena GUI autodetect ).

Here is a sample from a game against Ruffian1.0.5:

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Seems to be a 2.400-2500 ELO engine !
The problem is : clone or not ?!? . I wait for a programmer verdict !

Here is the link to this engine:
http://oron.com/ollnybofsu4t/QN.ZIP.html

If it's an original engine - will be nice a wonderful logo !
Thank you !

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Re: A new UCI engine ???

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If you are interested here is the Polish site with this engine:

http://szachmaty.blogspot.com/2009/06/r ... owych.html

And for a complete "comedy" here's the web page with the name and the "New" sign for this engine ! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: A new UCI engine ???

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what's even funnier, "author" of QN submitted his progrm to Leo Dijksmann, but avoided participation in Open Polich Computer Chess Championship, where he'd meet authors of original engines face to face.
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Re: A new UCI engine ???

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in other words, it's probably another Fruit.
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Re: A new UCI engine ???

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Sylwy wrote: Seems to be a 2.400-2500 ELO engine !
The problem is : clone or not ?!? . I wait for a programmer verdict !
Why would you even think that it might be? Not all new engines are clones.
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Re: A new UCI engine ???

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Don wrote:
Sylwy wrote: Seems to be a 2.400-2500 ELO engine !
The problem is : clone or not ?!? . I wait for a programmer verdict !
Why would you even think that it might be? Not all new engines are clones.
Yes, it's not nice for someone who releases a new engine to be "guilty until proven innocent". The assumption that a new engine must be weak is also very flawed, just because it's newly released doesn't mean it is recently developed...
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Re: A new UCI engine ???

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Sylwy wrote:If it's an original engine - will be nice a wonderful logo !
What about this one?

*** SPOILER ALERT ***
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39579
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Re: Thank you !

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QED wrote:
Sylwy wrote:If it's an original engine - will be nice a wonderful logo !
What about this one?

*** SPOILER ALERT ***
http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39579
Thank you man !

WOW !

I missed this engine because of my holiday ! :lol:
Sorry Mr.H.G. Muller !

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Re: A new UCI engine ???

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How did you come up with the ELO estimate for the engine ?

Thomas...
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Re: Thank you !

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I don't think this 'QN' can be QueeNy (although I posted that as QN.exe), because QueeNy is WinBoard, not UCI... QueeNy is also no good as a general Chess engine; it was exclusively made for playing the Charge-of-the-Light-Brigade (sub-)variant. So it could not have the rating you quote.
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