Dodgy eBay Listing for Komodo and Rybka

[rcmaddox]

This looks suspect to me ---->> https://www.ebay.com/itm/official-Ches ... 1438.l2649

Komodo 10 is still available for purchase from the Komodo website, so some guy selling Komodo 11, in the Arena GUI no less, looks suspicious. Rybka 4 is likewise still for sale. Is this guy authorized to sell Komodo and Rybka?

[lkaufman]

No.

[menniepals]

Unsupported. Better Stockfish and derivatives if that is the case. And it is free.

[Damir]

This looks suspect to me ---->> https://www.ebay.com/itm/official-Ches ... 1438.l2649

Komodo 10 is still available for purchase from the Komodo website, so some guy selling Komodo 11, in the Arena GUI no less, looks suspicious. Rybka 4 is likewise still for sale. Is this guy authorized to sell Komodo and Rybka?

I suppose is one way to make a money. Use free copy of Komodo and than later sell it for money, or purchase the original Komodo and than later sell it through E-Bay… People want to make money on other people's work, no matter how immoral it really is.

[duncan]

No.

https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/proh ... cy?id=4276

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[Leo]

It listed from China. Very bizarre. I cant imagine anyone on here buying from that listing.

[menniepals]

Why shouldn't he sell a collection for Arena plus the strongest free engines? Stockfish, Rybka 2, Houdini 1.5, Komodo 9, ASM, Raubfisch, Schooner and etc, should sell as a compilation of engines and guis. I myself would order if all the strongest freeware are there in one file.

[MikeB]

Why shouldn't he sell a collection for Arena plus the strongest free engines? Stockfish, Rybka 2, Houdini 1.5, Komodo 9, ASM, Raubfisch, Schooner and etc, should sell as a compilation of engines and guis. I myself would order if all the strongest freeware are there in one file.

Well it's not his property to sell. That would be like me me selling your house and keeping the money for myself. It would not be very nice would it be.

Of course he could sell it as long as he obtained the proper permissions:

http://www.playwitharena.com/?Legal_Stuff

Legal Stuff

You are allowed to download the program package and install it on as many computers as you like free of charge.

However, distribution or offering of Arena Chess GUI, SOS for Arena, Dragon, AnMon, Nejmet, Ruffian, Betsy, Chispa, Hermann, Frenzee, Spike, Aice and ELOstat on other webpages, newspaper, CDs, print and other media is only allowed in unmodified form and with the written permission of their respective authors Martin Blume, Rudolf Huber, Bruno LUCAS, Christian BARRETEAU, Jean-Christophe GABILLARD, Per-Ola Valfridsson, Landon W. Rabern, Federico Andrés Corigliano, Sune Fischer, Volker Annuss, Volker Böhm & Ralf Schäfer, Anastasios Milikas and Dr. Frank Schubert.

[menniepals]

Correct. But with all this very strong engines available for free download, it is difficult to sell anything unless it is some Komodo or Houdini. Even then only serious chess players will buy them.

[menniepals]

Even a friend who is a 2600 gm uses solely freeware engines to prepare, namely: Stockfish, Raubfisch, Brainfish and ASM. He was impressed with Komodo 9 to begin with but now thinks Stockfish and its derivatives as more accurate. Just a matter of choice.