Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 12:37:32 09/29/05
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On September 29, 2005 at 14:55:35, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 29, 2005 at 07:15:17, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>On September 29, 2005 at 01:10:18, Alex Shalamanov wrote: >> >>>On September 28, 2005 at 11:02:37, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >>> >>>>On September 28, 2005 at 06:18:38, Alex Shalamanov wrote: >>>> >>>>>There are a good many chess engines: some play bad chess, some good chess, just >>>>>a few really sound chess... But as to Fruit, HE (it's not an error or typo; I do >>>>>personify him) plays astonishing strategic chess. I come to think sometimes, if >>>>>it was done by Fabian on purpose when he programmed him. Probably, it was not >>>>>the case but I can't help feeling that the immortal soul of Jose Raul Capablanca >>>>>is behind Fruit's play style. The style so vivid to remind anyone of the great >>>>>past and present chess legends: Capablanca, Karpov, Ponomariov... >>>> >>>> >>>>I would say Karpov rather than the other two. >>> >>>Their styles are more or less alike, if only Karpov had a much stronger >>>willpower of the three. Fruit tries to gain positional advantage by maneuvring, >>>although Karpov used to do that in a more brilliant manner in 80's. Still, >>>Fabian has more time to work on the programme improvements. >>> >>>Alex >> >> >>Yes. When I said that Fruit reminds me more of Karpov than the other two, I had >>in mind the fact that Fruit does not always seek the simplest moves that lead to >>a win, the way Capablanca did. Sometimes the new Fruit WCCC (a.k.a. Fruit 2.2), >>goes out for a gory win :-). However, just like you, I think that there is room >>for even further improvement in the sceptical program. > >Fruit spends a lot of energy studying the control of the board, more than most >other programs, I think. Good observation. Shredder 9 was probably the first program to do that and I remember posting on the issue, saying that it cared about the chess "space" on the board. Some sort of "topological" control.
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