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Subject: Re: Can someone describe the playing style of Fruit?

Author: Marc-Olivier Moisan-Plante

Date: 22:59:41 08/23/05

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On August 24, 2005 at 01:11:36, William Sorin wrote:

>
>Will someone describe the chracteristics of Fruit as opposed to the playing
>style of other programs? Can it be described as human like? How I define
>humanlike is the ability to play speculatively. What are the main strengths of
>fruit? weaknesses?

I checked about 100 blitz games between Fruit 2.1 and Fritz 8.1.2. I would think
that Fritz plays better sicilians with opposite castling (in general it seems to
me that Fritz is a better attacker), but Fruit plays better when the pawn
structure is (relatively at least) static and/or the position is not (too)
unbalanced. Fruit looks to me more like a "positional" player.

I also noticed in some games that Fritz underestimates the value of unconnected
passed pawns (relative to Fruit). Fruit's King will then "escort" the pawn to
the promotion square (the "forbidden fruit"!).

Cheers,



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