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Subject: Re: Silver medal for Fruit !

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 08:34:18 08/22/05

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On August 21, 2005 at 05:21:51, Fabien Letouzey wrote:

>On August 20, 2005 at 23:00:13, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>Hi Uri,
>
>>>Fruit2.1 does not like Nc3 by search.
>
>Interesting.
>
>>Let me guess that the evaluation was slightly different than public fruit and
>>the score for 9.Nc3 was 0.00
>
>The only difference is a side-to-move bonus, proposed by Joachim Rang.
>
>>Let me guess that fruit could play 9.Nbd2 with different contempt score.
>>Am I correct?
>
>I will certainly have a look at all games after the tournament.
>
>>Note that it seems that this mistake did not change the place of fruit in the
>>tournament(second place).
>
>>Note also that if there are people who put their money on gambling that fruit
>>will not finish in the first 4 places based on your words before the tournament
>>then you need to apologize.
>
>Indeed, I am sure that many people are extremely mad at me for underestimating
>my own chances like this :)
>
>Thanks to those who did not believe me!

Simply a stupendous and unbelievable result for a single CPU engine.
Look at the next Single CPU engine as a function of the Elo that it earned.

Congratulations to all participants.  I am very happy for the excellent finish.

A very good "David and Goliath" like performance for Fruit.  But one giant was a
bit too tall.




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