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Subject: Re: Programmers: Best direction to further develop Fruit code?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 12:18:33 06/19/05

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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

Fruit is lightyears away from Shredder.

something that might play well in 1 0 because it gets instantly 11 or 12 ply,
doesn't mean it is having a chance in some serious time control like 60 in 2
under tournament conditions.

Additional it is not parallel, so from programming viewpoint it also is years
away from shredder and fritz there.

I estimate Fruit is about 5 fulltime years of programming chessknowledge away
from shredder and an additional 2 years of programming for parallellism.

Perhaps Fabien can manage the parallellism. Let's hope so. I have faith in him
there. But the chessknowledge, forget it. No chance.

Fritz chessknowledge is very well tuned and it's a lot more than Fruit, but by
now of course also outdated in case they want to win a world title.

Vincent

>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



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