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Subject: Fruit commercial

Author: Fabien Letouzey

Date: 09:58:33 09/16/05



Hi all,

The next version of Fruit will be commercial.  After the strong performance
in Reykjavik and the good results from the CEGT-testing group, I believe that
there is interest in a near-future release.

My decisions to close the source code and to go commercial are separate and
based on the following motives: to reduce the risk of clones which might win
important tournaments in the future and to have more time and better equipment
for working on the engine.

Joachim Rang and I intend to make Fruit WCCC'05 available in a few weeks as
a UCI-only engine without a GUI on our website.  Some unresolved issues are
remaining, such as copy/serial protection and some engine features that I
would like to implement prior to release.  For this reason, I cannot yet
give an precise date.  It is possible that Fruit WCCC'05 or future versions
will be distributed by other companies together with a GUI as well.

With the UCI release, we want to bring to the computer-chess community an
engine which people can use in their favourite GUI.  It is not targeted to
the mass market.

You can have a look at a preliminary version of the web site:

http://www.fruitchess.com

Suggestions are welcome by email: info@fruitchess.com

Fabien.




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