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Subject: Re: Is Fruit 2.1 engine the Best free chess program???

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 17:15:40 08/03/05

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On August 03, 2005 at 19:30:08, John Brownlee wrote:

>Hi Tanya,
>
>My laptop is currently 3000 games into a 5280 game tournament among 33 engines.
>   (Shredder8 + 32 free engines)
>GUI is Arena.
>Time control is 40/20 repeating.
>All use same opening book d-grafen-v01__asb.abk
>   (downloaded many moons ago from Arena website)
>3/4 man endgame tablebases are available for engines.
>   (not all support their use)
>Hardware is Athlon XP 1.5 GHz
>
>The top 9 engines at this point in the tournament have made a breakaway
> from the rest of the pack.
>
>Standings so far:
>1. Shredder8 (not free) 140.5/181
>2. Spike                127.5/180
>3. Prodeo               121.5/181
>4. Fruit                118.5/182
>5. Ruffian 1.05         118.5/181
>6. List512              116.0/181
>7. Slowchess            114.0/181
>8. Aristarch 4.50       111.5/182
>9. Pharaon              111.0/181
>
>10. SOS                 100.0/181
>11-32. Other engines with scores between SOS and Averno
>33. Averno               37.0/182
>
>I only upgraded to Fruit 2.1 about 6 weeks ago. So only about 40 of Fruit's
>games have been with Fruit 2.1. Others may be a mix of 1.5 and 2.0, but mostly
>2.0 I think.

There is a HUGE strength difference between Fruit 2.1 and Fruit 2.0. Mixing
games between different versions doesn't give an accurate strength determination
of either version. :-)

Regards
Dave



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