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Subject: Re: Fruit will NOT win this year.....

Author: Majd Al-Ansari

Date: 23:49:42 08/15/05

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I think a lot of people are rooting for Fruit, but the truth is that it still
has a lot of improvement to make.  It has to be able to use multiprocessors,
this is especially true since multi core processors will be the norm and not the
exception.  Also it has to learn how to use EGTB.  I was watching the game
against Zappa yesterday where Fruit had an evaluation of -2.0 while my Shredder
with EGTB was showing mate in 31.  That is a HUGE disadvantage.  One more thing
is that Fruit's evaluation is totally different from any other program,
therefore it needs a specially tuned book.  In my experiments Fruit performs
really great with some books but is miserable in other books.

Still these things can easily be resolved if its gifted author decides to go for
it.  A version of Fruit with the mentioned improvements will be a truly
formidable program.


On August 15, 2005 at 18:24:36, Thomas Logan wrote:

>On August 15, 2005 at 17:58:00, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Fruit still has to play against Crafty, Shredder, and Deep Junior, three
>>programs with Multy Processors and tough to beat even with single processor.
>>
>>Jorge
>
>That seems certain
>
>Too much , too soon
>
>Still great promise in fruit
>
>Tom



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