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Re: Has Alfil 15.8 been withdrawn?
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 11:20 pm
by velmarin
Alfil is one copy the source code Stockfish in C#.
One good translation, 100% 100.
Re: Has Alfil 15.8 been withdrawn?
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:37 am
by velmarin
SzG wrote:velmarin wrote:Alfil is one copy the source code Stockfish in C#.
One good translation, 100% 100.
Uhh. From which version?
I guess from the 15.7.
Here is the source code and does not doubt.
https://github.com/Alfilchess/Engine
Re: Has Alfil 15.8 been withdrawn?
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:14 am
by Guenther
velmarin wrote:Alfil is one copy the source code Stockfish in C#.
One good translation, 100% 100.
Well there was already a legal C# translation of Stockfish, which started a few years ago, by Balint Pfliegel have you compared it to Alfil too?
Guenther
Re: Has Alfil 15.8 been withdrawn?
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 11:33 pm
by Matthias Gemuh
velmarin wrote:SzG wrote:velmarin wrote:Alfil is one copy the source code Stockfish in C#.
One good translation, 100% 100.
Uhh. From which version?
I guess from the 15.7.
Here is the source code and does not doubt.
https://github.com/Alfilchess/Engine
Should Alfil not at least modify its name to give credit where it is due ?
Re: Has Alfil 15.8 been withdrawn?
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 11:47 pm
by Dann Corbit
Matthias Gemuh wrote:velmarin wrote:SzG wrote:velmarin wrote:Alfil is one copy the source code Stockfish in C#.
One good translation, 100% 100.
Uhh. From which version?
I guess from the 15.7.
Here is the source code and does not doubt.
https://github.com/Alfilchess/Engine
Should Alfil not at least modify its name to give credit where it is due ?
It should certainly give credit in the release notes.
On the web site, credit is given as follows:
Owing to the inability to maintain previous versions of Alfil as independent and in order to give the community a new chess engine with new ideas and always thinking about the “human interaction” rather than in the rankings and in the speed. It has taken the decision to make a new engine opensource write in C#.
This new version in C# takes the ideas and knowledge gained from over 10 years of Alfil versions of and other ideas from opensource programs as:
Stockfish (v5)
Gaviota (tablebases)
Ippolit / Robbolito
Glaurung
Crafty
Critter
Muchos otros
Re: Has Alfil 15.8 been withdrawn?
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 12:11 am
by Matthias Gemuh
Dann Corbit wrote:Matthias Gemuh wrote:...
Should Alfil not at least modify its name to give credit where it is due ?
It should certainly give credit in the release notes.
On the web site, credit is given as follows:
Owing to the inability to maintain previous versions of Alfil as independent and in order to give the community a new chess engine with new ideas and always thinking about the “human interaction” rather than in the rankings and in the speed. It has taken the decision to make a new engine opensource write in C#.
This new version in C# takes the ideas and knowledge gained from over 10 years of Alfil versions of and other ideas from opensource programs as:
Stockfish (v5)
Gaviota (tablebases)
Ippolit / Robbolito
Glaurung
Crafty
Critter
Muchos otros
"the inability to maintain previous versions of Alfil as independent" is hard to understand.
"Alfil_SF" would easily elucidate the paradigm shift in the code base.
Re: Has Alfil 15.8 been withdrawn?
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 6:39 am
by lucasart
Yes, Alfil was kicked out from TCEC. Good riddance. But it was kicked out for another reason (non compliance with UCI OwnBook). The fact that it is a 1:1 translation of SF in C# (modulo bugs and slowdown), and that the author does not admit it, and tries to obfuscate the plagiarism by translating some variable names in Spanish… That's ok for TCEC… pathetic.