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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:13:12 08/24/05

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On August 24, 2005 at 06:59:48, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On August 24, 2005 at 06:35:40, Zheng Zhixian wrote:
>
>>On August 24, 2005 at 03:27:48, Joachim Rang wrote:
>>
>>>On August 24, 2005 at 01:11:36, William Sorin wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>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

In this case what happened in the game of fruit against diep.

I did not analyze the game but I read during the game a claim that fruit's
castling was a novelty that sacrifies a pawn.

Uri



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