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Subject: Re: Fruit Reykjavic

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:18:03 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 16:45:26, Peter Berger wrote:

>On August 23, 2005 at 16:10:37, Zheng Zhixian wrote:
>
>>On August 23, 2005 at 15:55:49, Borokou wrote:
>>
>>>On August 23, 2005 at 15:23:49, Ulf Flörsheimer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Does anybody know if, when and how the WCCC version of Fruit will be
>>>>distributed?
>>>>
>>>>Ulf
>>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>Fabien says no
>>>
>>>Regards
>>
>>Interesting. I could be wrong, but i seem to remember him (or one of the beta
>>testers) saying he would do so after the tourney.
>>
>>Oh well.
>
>
>Fabien is sceptical about releasing further versions as open source because he
>was actually surprised by the amazing strength improvement of Fruit 2.1 himself.

Did you hear it directly from Fabien?

>
>The release of open source engines who are competitive with the best commercials
> can easily be not to the best of computerchess, and Fabien is not only
>extremely nice, but also a very responsible guy.

Does it mean that Fabien thinks to release better fruit as free source code only
after the commercial programs get better than it?

Uri



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