Has Alfil 15.8 been withdrawn?

[Guenther]

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

[Matthias Gemuh]

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 ?

[Dann Corbit]

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

[Matthias Gemuh]

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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.

[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.