Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:44:19 06/18/05
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On June 19, 2005 at 02:24:52, Roger D Davis wrote: >Since Fruit is just a notch down from Shredder and Fritz, it looks like that >maybe with some further improvements, the strongest chess program could be open >source. That would be a tremendous victory for the open source movement, and >would prove the superiority of open source over proprietary development. > >I'm curious about the directions that programmers might pursue to develop Fruit >to the point of being strongest in the world. Can it be done? How can it be >done? What's the best way to do it? Would it have to be done in steps? What are >they? > >Roger I guess that limiting extensions is a possible direction for improvement. The fact that Fruit2.1 solve the following mate in 30 in depth 1 means that it does often useless extensions. [D]5n2/B3K3/2p2Np1/4k3/7P/3bN1P1/2Prn1P1/1q6 w - - 0 1 I guess that using partial extensions can improve fruit and extending both checks and single reply by a full ply is a mistake. Uri
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