A couple of days ago I ran into an old chessplaying friend at the local mall and he told me he runs Arena and had recently downloaded an illegal copy of Houdini 4 and was happy with it. I warned him about the dangers of getting a virus doing that, but he stated he had scanned the program with antivirus software and everything was OK.
I expressed some doubt about it being the real Houdini 4 and
he agreed to e-mail me a copy. I scanned
it with Webroot and it looked OK so I installed in my Fritz 12 GUI and it worked
fine. I decided to run a G5 engine match
with Houdini 2 vs Houdini 4 and went off to do something else. When I returned I discovered 13 games had
been played and Houdini 2 had scored +10 -1 =2.
Conclusion: I don’t know what
engine that the “Houdini 4” is, but clearly it’s not the real thing. Watch those illegal downloads!!
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