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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