R.I.P. Eman By Khalid Omar plus Bonus Eman secrets

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Eman project started almost 3 years ago as a private project for my own entertainment only. I love chess and I enjoy programming and Eman was one application that combines both hobbies of mine!

I was aware of the fact that if Eman becomes a public project then it will be a violation to distribute it without the code. I never intended to distribute Eman and for that reason, I was the only use of Eman for approximately one year. That is when Eman started attracting the attention of some of my friends who asked me for a copy of Eman. Those friends never cared if Eman code is included with the binary or not.

Later more chess enthusiasts became interested and wanted to have a copy of Eman, again none of those enthusiasts was interested in Eman code. I came up with a licensing scheme that only allows people I know (or people who approached me by email or via this forum) to use Eman but then the licensing thing became too much to handle.

That is when I made Eman completely public, which is a mistake becasue it is a violation of GPL to release Eman binaries without the modified code.

After being approached by some of Stockfish authors recently, I have decided to make Eman private again. There will be no more releases after the last version and there will be no more sharing of Eman binaries using any means.

I know some users depend on Eman for chess play or analysis but unfortunately, I cannot support them anymore for the reasons I mentioned earlier.

Currently, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] is the closest engine to Eman as it has the same experience logic and it has some of Eman logic included in the search algorithm. I will continue to help [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] with [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] code and I will be contributing to other engines such as [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] like I used to do before and whenever requested by their respected authors.
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Over time, I have implemented few secret things in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] engine that I did not share publicly. Only few people know about them and are currently using them R.I.P. Eman By Khalid Omar plus Bonus Eman secrets Icon_e_smile

I decided to start relieving some of those secrets publicly R.I.P. Eman By Khalid Omar plus Bonus Eman secrets Icon_cool

I will be creating one post for each secret I will be revealing

CURRENT SECRETS REVEALED: 2

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