Houdini 6 engine is free now!!

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https://github.com/MichaelB7/Houdini/releases/tag/6.03

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Eh, I'm holding out for the Penn & Teller engine.

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EscherehcsE wrote:

Eh, I'm holding out for the Penn & Teller engine.

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Like when Rybka was shown to be a clone of Fruit?

And then that... fire-something engine. It wasn't around long, but it was a houdini clone IIRC?

But now we're learning houdini is a strockfish clone I guess.

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llama44 wrote:

Like when Rybka was shown to be a clone of Fruit?

And then that... fire-something engine. It wasn't around long, but it was a houdini clone IIRC?

But now we're learning houdini is a strockfish clone I guess.

Houdini 6 - Stockfish clone  is much worse than Rybka scandal. ( It is almost exact copy of Stockfish 8).

 

As modern AB engines are too much similar in idea, sometimes there is difficulty in telling " copying idea vs copying codes".

 

One programmer ( Matthew Wai) is sick of those allegations and created a unique chess engine. " Learn from scratch by its own".

 

His first success was " Giraffe" in 2015.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/09/14/247956/deep-learning-machine-teaches-itself-chess-in-72-hours-plays-at-international-master/

And his success become completely phenomenal once he joined the Google, deep mind team and created , Alpha Zero. in 2017.

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Ok, I don't follow all the engine news I don't know much about it happy.png

You seem to be up to date on things like this.

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Yeah, the cups & balls trick with clear cups. Those guys are amazing!

P.S. - I've actually heard Teller talk!

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@OP - I don't follow Houdini very closely - If I have Stockfish, is there any reason to have Houdini?

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Houdini is clone of Robbolito and Ippolit so for me Rybka and Houdini are not legit engines. Stockfish is the number 1 now. We don't to use any comercial engine.

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What is better then , Houdine of Stockfish