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Subject: Re: starting to feel a little let down

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 02:13:26 08/23/05

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On August 21, 2005 at 23:38:51, Andrew Walker wrote:

>On August 21, 2005 at 23:25:44, Darrel Briley 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
>>
>>
>>Hi Wayne,
>>
>>Ok.  You're wrong.  :)
>>
>>I can't say anything about ZappaWCCC in a single cpu configuration, but I know
>>Fruit2.1 wouldn't be "strangled" by Fritz.  Just look at Thomas Logan's
>>Shredder-Fruit and Fritz-Fruit LTC matches.
>>
>>Fruit WCCC is likely even stronger, and of course, Fruit, at present, can only
>>make use of a single cpu.
>>
>>                               DB
>
>Do you have a link for these? I think longer TC games should be more interesting
>as the evaluation function becomes a lot more important. A clear example of this
>is the games against Arno Nickel, he found faults in the comps play that would
>take a very deep search to find, but perhaps with better eval could be overcome.
>I also expect that Shredder, Hiarcs, Junior and the like would have much more
>involved evals than these new engines, especially in areas such as endgames that
>don't necessarily add a great amount to their rating, but make them far better
>for analysis in many situations.
>
>More testing is needed!!
>
>Andrew

Andrew I think you are right. I dont have a link to my CC games.
Wayne



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