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Subject: Re: Fruit2 = Ruffian with source code!

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 07:46:50 01/04/05

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On January 04, 2005 at 03:02:59, Jouni Uski wrote:

>On January 04, 2005 at 02:26:56, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 04, 2005 at 01:31:21, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>I don't mean copy, but strong as Ruffian 1.0.5 and source - this is sensation!!
>>
>>No sensation for me.
>>
>>I predicted before Fruit2 that Fruit will be better than shredder8 in 2007.
>>
>>The good results of Fabian only suggest that the top programs of today are weak
>>because the programmers who work about them are relatively not good programmers.
>>
>>As far as I know no programmer got good results like Fabian in a short time as
>>an amateur(Fabian started to write Fruit in 2003) and I guess that Fabian does
>>not live from chess programming and has another job.
>>
>>>BTW is it joke readme file:
>>>
>>>"Fruit is not fast (in nodes per second) given the little it is
>>>calculating."
>>>
>>>?? Peaks over 2Mnps on my 2 years old PC!
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>I do not think that Fruit can search more than 2M nodes per second on 2 years
>>old PC.
>>
>>Fruit on my A3000 can calculate slightly less than 1 Mnp per second in the
>>opening position.
>>
>>
>>Uri
>
>Try this kind of position:
>
>[D]8/6k1/8/2K5/4N3/4N3/8/8 w - -
>
>Tablebases are not slowing engine.
>
>Jouni

I guess that if you don't have tablebase support then you need to search 2
million positions / second to see it's a draw.
:-)



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