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

Author: John Brownlee

Date: 18:34:08 08/03/05

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On August 03, 2005 at 20:15:40, David Dahlem wrote:

>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

Hi Dave,
You are correct. I will delete/replace Fruit in the tournament so after a week
or so of gauntletting to catch up the number of games to the rest of the
tournament players, I will have new results that will be pure Fruit2.1.
Regards, John



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