Author: Günther Simon
Date: 11:58:10 08/27/04
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On August 27, 2004 at 14:48:26, Jan K. wrote: > >>I personnally am a bit surprised that enabling/disabling the extensions makes >>pretty much no difference, and would be interested in views as to why this would >>be the case. >> > >In blitz I'm not surprised by this at all. I usually run 20+ games 5m+2s against >Fruit 1.5 games every time I test new version of my engine and although I would >expect to win 60% of games just because of missing Fruit's king safety >evaluation, the result is usually very close to 50%. In blitz tournaments that I >run from time to time with Crafty,Fritz8,Aristarch,Gothmog,Arasan,... Fruit >usually ends very high, often second behind Fritz. To me it looks that the major >strenght of Fruit is very well tuned search in combination with it's mobility >evaluation. Pawn push extension is useless if there's no place to use it and can >blow up the search if not used carefully, single reply may not be a big win in >blitz as well. Fruit has clear plan-to outplay you positionally with well placed >pieces, which _by the way_ creates pressure on your position and every mistake >loses the game easily. Thanks to this, there's low branching factor and while >you evaluate some additional stuff and spend time with extensions, Fruit simply >outsearchs you. Given no chance of tactics you lose positionally. That's just my >opinion based on the games I've seen,nothing more. :) Very good description from what I have seen so far! But beware next version of Fruit will have king safety ;) Best regards, Günther http://home.t-online.de/home/g.simon.rgbg/
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