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Subject: Re: Fruit 2.1 : Huge strength without TBs

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 08:46:36 08/28/05

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On August 28, 2005 at 09:27:21, Roy Brunjes wrote:

>Almost all have seen how strong Fruit 2.1 is by now. It plays very well even in
>the endgame. And yet, it does not use tablebases. It seems about 2 years ago or
>so that there was beginning to develop a community consensus that tablebases
>were essential to strong endgame play by an engine. And yet, here is Fruit
>winning endgames vs strong engines such as Shredder (and others) with only the
>knowledge built into its relatively small executable.
>
>Does anyone else find this remarkable? I hope this has not been discussed
>already and my searches through the archives were the wrong ones.
>
>Roy



Fruit is indeed very strong without tablebases.
However, it may gain another 20...40 Elo points with tablebases.

Matthias.



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