I have written a small 48K engine named SMIRF. Nobody would have noticed, because it plays very similar to a weak humans. I am astonished how much fear seems to be connected with this unfinished small beta of my first chess programming trial since 25 years. Smirf does not use table bases or huge opening libraries. And it has been created all by myself, not patchworking of any foreign sources. Thus there is no outside help or assistance. Smirf is the target into which I organize my experiences.

Analysing what has been written here, the root of this discusson is not that I am using a self written program, but that I have confessed frankly to that situation. I am very sure, that Smirf would not have been recognized as a program, if I would not have published that fact on my profile.

So, to what this discussion would lead us? It will fight against the reasons of this quarrel, and that is, that poeple have been honest. Therefore think it over, what you might earn from that discussion: simply a vanishing of honesty.