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Subject: Re: One thing I'll miss about a Commercial Fruit

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:56:00 09/19/05

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On September 19, 2005 at 14:56:20, paul bedrey wrote:

>On September 19, 2005 at 13:54:24, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 19, 2005 at 11:28:20, paul bedrey wrote:
>>
>>>The readme file! It was interesting to read what was changed or added that
>>>increased the strength.
>>
>>It is not a secret.
>>Reading this forum is enough to know
>>Bonus for the side to move and pruning technique were added to Fruit2.1 and as
>>far as I know there were no more differences between Fruit2.1 and Fruit WCCC.
>>
>>Uri
>
>So the 60 point improvement was due to tuning parameters? Seems hard to believe.
>It implys that a person with no knowledge of programing (like me) could improve
>a program thru changing parameters provided I had good technique in engine
>testing. I've heard claims about improving Rebel, Chessmaster, and Shredder with
>just changing parameters but got the impression that their authors did not think
>it possible.
>
>Paul

No

Adding bonus to the side to move is not changing parameters and I am not sure if
you know how to do it correctly to do fruit stronger.

Fabien knows it.

Adding a pruning technique is also not changing parameters.

Uri



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