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Subject: Re: Shredder-Toga II with the fruit book or what a difference a book mak

Author: Marc Lacrosse

Date: 23:24:46 08/24/05

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On August 25, 2005 at 02:08:19, Majd Al-Ansari wrote:


>
>This is especially true in Fruit.  In my experimentation Fruit is extremely
>sensitive to which book it uses.  It has evaluations that are very different
>from other engines so if you force it to be in a position out of the opening
>that it doesn't like, it plays poorly.  A good book will soon come out for Fruit
>although I am not aware of the best one.

I completely agree!

See WCCC game against Diep : it was a good prepared variation that I had checked
with both Fruit and a couple of other engines running while encoding it for the
book.
But I did not have the time to have Fruit playing a couple of games from the
final book position. As you can see it played it terribly against Diep and was
completely outplayed. This is the perfect exemple of a line that does not "suit"
fruit at all!
The same goes for Erdogan's anticomputer doenner gambit. Fruit goes like any
other engine in the purely loosing plan to exchange Bb4xNc3 followed by a
french-like closed center where its chances are near zero due to the lack of a
black-squares bishop.
At the opposite, the completely drawish-looking line played at the final round
against futé leads to a kind of position where I knew that Fruit is extremely
strong. I chose it for the win! Fruit never looses in such positions and wins a
large number of games.

Marc



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