2009-11-11 08:47:50, shiv shivaji:

>Do not wish to reopen the long version of this debate from the talkchess 
>forum. 
Sorry, I was just interested why it does not work on Scid. I didn't expect to 
open a can of worms.

> Quick answers to the points below:
> 1. It is possible to convert assembly code to C in a closed source program.
>  Requires a smart hacker to reconstruct the pieces well though. 
Of course this it possible. But you won't get constant expressions and 
variable names.

>   2. Not sure  about this.
I don't think any assembler can add information that given variable holds a 
number of white knights.

> 3 and 4. It might be a clone of a few engines. However, I think the hacker
>  also improved the logic in the process. This implies a very smart person
>  is behind it.
I fail to see why people accept without any proof that somebody can just take 
the disassembled, unstructured code from a few engines (without any code and 
documentation) and merge it, achieving a better performance.

If this was that easy, why not take a bunch of best Open Source programs and 
merge them, creating the best open source engine? That should be much easier, 
right?

-- 
Michal Rudolf

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