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Subject: What i would have wished!

Author: Thomas Gaksch

Date: 07:56:25 12/24/05


it is very difficult for me to describe this in english.
first of all i want to clarify, that i always thank fabien for his great program
fruit and everything he did for computer chess. an of course he is a great
programmer and a great person. no doubt about that. i have never said anything
else. i also have never said that i am the great programmer and that toga is
full of new ideas. i have also never said that fruit wouldn´t be as strong as it
is without toga.
i just read the comments from ryan, uri, tord (programmers) and others about
toga and i am very dissapointed from their statements. but i think there are
some facts.
first of all the most important fact is playing strength.
CEGT 40/40 Fruit 2.1 = 2713 ELO
CEGT 40/40 Toga II 1.1 = 2767 ELO
CEGT Blitz Fruit 2.1 = 2703
CEGT Blitz Toga II 1.1 = 2767
and if you critizise me that i only wrote 47 lines of code for this improvement
than i think that is not a negative point. not the quantity of lines is
important.
and if you critizise me that i invented nothing new than i can only say that it
is true. why should i invent something really new, if it is possible to improve
fruit with known techniques.
you say that it is so simple what i have done. thats partly true. but believe me
or not i invested a lot of time in testing und finding the right techniques
which improved the playing strenght so much. if everything is so simple and fast
to implement, why hasn´t done it fabien in fruit 2.0 or 2.1? i think fabien
hastn´t done it, because he didn´t believe that these techniques would increase
the playing strength so much. there is absolutely no doubt about it that it
would be easy for him to do that. and it is 100% clear that he never used toga
code in fruit. but i think i showed him the techniques which worked in fruit
very well. so he saved a little bit time in testing this things because he saw
in toga that it will work.
i also said that i would never release a clone if it is not better than his
original. so if ryan writes derogative about toga than i only can say "do it
better". but you release one beta after the other and no beta is really stronger
than toga 1.1. so you see it is not so simple to improve an existing engine like
everybody thinks.
i am absolutely sure that some people will again misunderstand my lines. but
that are the facts about fruit/toga and i would have wished that the people
would also accepted these facts. but it is only a whish.

merry christmas

Thomas



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