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Subject: Re: Can someone describe the playing style of Fruit?

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 03:59:48 08/24/05

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On August 24, 2005 at 06:35:40, Zheng Zhixian wrote:

>On August 24, 2005 at 03:27:48, Joachim Rang wrote:
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>>On August 24, 2005 at 01:11:36, William Sorin wrote:
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>>>
>>>Will someone describe the chracteristics of Fruit as opposed to the playing
>>>style of other programs? Can it be described as human like? How I define
>>>humanlike is the ability to play speculatively. What are the main strengths of
>>>fruit? weaknesses?
>>
>>Fruit plays most certainly not humanlike but unspectacular. I agree that it
>>plays positionally fine but I think the strength of Fruit is that it plays very
>>balanced. It has no big weaknesses and plays not speculative like Junior or
>>Shredder. The playing style can be described as boring and coputerish but that
>>is the way to score your points. Fruit often refutes an unsound atack from great
>>attackers like Junior or Shredder (like in the WCCC).
>
>I see Peter Berger and Fabien and calling it a "skeptical program". ??

no speculative sacrifices, no unsound attacks, no over-optimistic evaluation of
some positions, just sound chess. ;-)

regards Joachim
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>>kind regards
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>>Joachim



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