Author: Shaley
Date: 23:04:32 08/24/05
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On August 24, 2005 at 08:41:38, Joachim Rang wrote: >This is some kind of special knowledge and irrelevant for playing strength. I'm >not saying that Fruit has more or better knowledge of specific chess positions >than Fritz (it most certainly has less) but that it _plays_ very good. My >definition of sound chess is: it wins more often. ;-) > >kind regards > >Joachim Oh, Joachim, I don't believe there're irrelevant positions in chess, however unnatural they may seem. You know a lot of chess problems when the weakest side gains a draw by force sacrificing pieces and closing the pawn chains, don't you? But, true, I've got your point; you meant it was not real chess, these positions occur very rarely, one in thousands, may be. All right, I tested Fruit 2.1 against Fritz 8.1.2.0 (Bilbao) in a 20 games' match with the time controls of 15'+ 15". The opening books were switched off not to give Fritz an edge due to his powerful opening book. The result was very pathetic for Fruit: +0 =6 -14. Well, it's very likely that Fritz Bilbao is too strong for Fruit 2.1. I will test it against my fave programme Hiarcs9 today to see how Fruit can fight against an intelligent attacker. I will post the results tomorrow.
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