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Subject: Re: Shredder or Fruit?

Author: Madhavan

Date: 02:55:16 09/09/05

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On September 09, 2005 at 04:06:17, Alex Shalamanov wrote:

>I use Shredder 9 Classic to analyse my games. I've also found out that when I
>use Fruit 2.1 in parallel with Shredder 9 Sandro Necci (I named it that way
>because I used in it the settings Sandro proposed on the forum) under Triple
>Brain Analysis both the output and the evaluation are likely more sensible. I
>don't know why but SMK made recent Shredder version more aggressive and less
>positionally cautious; it leads to interesting but very unstable games. It's
>okay for OTB or engine-engine games but in correspondence chess this approach is
>very vulnerable. Very often Shredder's evaluation is too optimistic. However,
>Fruit with its cautious and accurate positional style 'cools Shredder off'.
>If there was a commercially available version of Fruit WCCC, I'd surely buy it
>for its good solid and well-grounded positional style. But there's been no
>information in favour of it. What do you think is going to be released sooner:
>Shredder 10 or Fruit WCCC, if any? It's a pity the developers are so reticent.
>Alex

I expect that there would be less customers if shredder were to be released
sooner because of its WCCC results.
For Fruit,I don't know I expect Fabien to give us a great surprise by releasing
his program freely [with or without code]
I don't want source code anyway :)



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