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Subject: Re: Fruit 2.1 - MultiPV - Any news?

Author: Juan Pablo Naar C.

Date: 18:26:44 08/05/05

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On August 05, 2005 at 21:07:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 05, 2005 at 18:33:01, John A Johnson wrote:
>
>>I agree entirely Fruit is one of my favorite engines. I am amazed at how often
>>it predicts the same move(s) strong players analyze or play. Thanks Fabien.
>
>I think that it may be a good idea to give comments to the evaluation in a
>seperate text file so even humans without programming background will be able to
>calculate fruit's evaluation.
>
>It is possible that it may help chess players to play better.
>It also can help programmers to have better ideas for improvement in their
>evaluation.
>Inspite of spending hours on Fruit's code I still do not understand most of the
>evaluation.
>I suggested in the winboard forum to do some project of commenting fruit's code
>in the hope that more people will understand more of it but unfortunately nobody
>seemed to be interested in it and it seems that nobody is interested to help
>people to understand it.
>
>I thought that people may help me to understand parts of it and I will also help
>them to understand other parts of it so it will be easier both for me and for
>other people to understand fruit[I think that if I try to understand fruit
>without help it may take years(I do not plan to spend many hours every day in
>trying to understand it) so I want to do the process shorter].
>
>Unfortunately it did not happen and it seems that people are divided to the
>folllowing sets.
>1)People who are not interested in understanding fruit.
>2)People who are interested in understanding it but prefer to keep the knowledge
>to themselves because they do not want their opponents to understand it.
>3)People who do not believe that they can understand parts of fruit.
>
>Uri

Hi Uri,

I think Thomaz (author of Toga) understands it, ask him help.

JPN



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