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Subject: Re: Premature burial

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 16:28:46 09/09/05

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On September 09, 2005 at 19:18:48, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 09, 2005 at 19:13:15, Thomas Logan wrote:
>
>>On September 09, 2005 at 18:50:01, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On September 09, 2005 at 18:37:39, Thomas Logan wrote:
>>>
>>>>To know one in particular
>>>>
>>>>Last I looked Shredder is a chessbase engine
>>>>
>>>>IMHO no currently widely available engine has surpassed it
>>>>
>>>>at classical time control
>>>>
>>>>A new Shredder will be out soon
>>>>
>>>>Hiarcs 10 is around the corner
>>>>
>>>>A beta version of Hiarcs scored 6-4 against Zappa
>>>>
>>>>while the results are of limited importance it does show Zappa
>>>>
>>>>will not have a cake walk and who knows it may eventually wind up being a
>>>>chessbase engine. Stranger things have happened
>>>>
>>>>And Fruit who knows ?
>>>
>>>I predict that Fruit will make a heap of dead bodies in the SSDF that will cause ChessBase to fall silent there as well.
>>
>>We will see
>>
>>Fruit is among the top few
>>
>>It plays about equal to Fritz bilbao at classical time control
>
>You speak fo Fruit 2.1.  I speak of Fruit WCCC.

Fruit WCCC is not available for testing
>
>>and not quite as good as Shredder 9.
>
>I think you are wrong.  And considering Fabien's rapid progress, I suspect that an SSDF version will gain another 50-100 Elo.

A 100 pts ? Thats an awful lot but if it does we will all have a great time
with it
>
>>Maybe it will get better,
>
>That is certain.
>
>>maybe the competition will get better,
>
>That is certain.
>
>>maybe it will
>>go commercial as a chessbase engine
>
>That is possible.
>
>At any rate, the progress of Fruit is such that I think it is probably better on a single CPU than any other chess engine.  But it is largely speculation on my part.  We will see for sure later.
>
>>The possibilities are there definite conclusions I believe are premature
>
>Right.  For now, we like to prognosticate.

Yes
>
>>regards
>>
>>Tom



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