Author: Marc Lacrosse
Date: 23:48:42 08/21/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 00:14:42, George Speight wrote: >On August 21, 2005 at 23:03:40, Wayne Lowrance wrote: > >>My sincere compliments to zappa and fruit, really terrific. But I am a single >>cpu owner, probobly always will. But I have this feeling that the commercial >>programs (fritz mainly) in 1 cput configuration would strangle zappa and fruit, >>particularily in CC games. Please tell me I am wrong. >>Wayne > >>I am a big fan of the freeware programs and love them. But the sad truth is i > cannot tell you that you are wrong. Shredder 9 and Fritz 8 Bilbao will > absolutely destroy ANY freeware program ina long match. I dont care who has >run what and tells you whatever, that is the sad, or not sad, truth, depending > on how you look at it. One day that may change. But for now you will just > have to live with that. Regards, George Is it a joke ? After several thousand games at slow play rate, Fruit 2.1 is on the par with Fritz 8 slightly behind shredder in independent testings: see http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/rangliste.html In our private tests FruitX is slightly better. Fruit only plays on monoprocesor PC's and was second at WCCC on a PC that you could buy at your local reseller. At wccc he outplayed shredder which played on a multiprocessor box in what I consider to be one of the best positional games played by any engine. If you are so comfident than nothing can beat shredder and fritz, please be cautious. I wouldn't bet to large a sum in a match against Fruit. We still do not know the strength of zappa 2.0 on a monoprocessor PC but it should also be able to give chessbase fans quite a few nightmares. :-) Marc Marc
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