Author: Pallav Nawani
Date: 22:21:18 06/19/05
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On June 20, 2005 at 00:35:25, David Mitchell wrote: >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 > >If Fruit were a notch ABOVE Shredder and Fritz, you might at least have ONE >datapoint to base your hopes on - for now. > >But that's not the case, and you're argument has nothing but speculation behind >it. Certainly there is no proof of "open source being superior", in sight. > >I'm not intimately familiar with Fruit, but Theron's advice of "Test, test, and >more testing", does sound right to me. > >Whatever can be done to strengthen any good engine, will need to be done in >steps. Some will be larger than others, and many will yield absolutely no >improvement. Unless you have a working crystal ball, you have to make your best >guess, and test that change out thoroughly. Then, try your next best guess, >based on your understanding of the program, and test that out. > >Just for fun, my guesses to strengthen Fruit would be: 1) Improve the opening >book, and 2) Make Fruit automatically "page" load the optimum amount of EGTB >into RAM, to help prevent it from being i/o bound during the search. > Fruit does not use EGTBs. Pallav
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