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Subject: Re: Nice work, keep it up

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 14:42:37 10/01/05

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On October 01, 2005 at 15:27:01, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 01, 2005 at 12:59:35, Thomas Logan wrote:
>
>>On October 01, 2005 at 12:40:53, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On October 01, 2005 at 12:22:18, Thomas Logan wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 01, 2005 at 10:53:02, robert flesher wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am also seeing Fruit with a positive score against Shredder 9.1, truly a huge
>>>>>achievement for Fabien. We shall we if it continues over 100 games. However,
>>>>>after looking at the games i have little doubt. Cheers
>>>>
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>Yes it truly is huge achievement for Fabien
>>>>
>>>>Makes me sad for my favorite engine Shredder should trend continue
>>>>
>>>>Oh well perhaps SMK will be inspired to reach even greater heights
>>>>
>>>>My hat is off to Fabien and the Fruit team
>>>>
>>>>Tom
>>>
>>>I am sure about it but the same is going to be also for Fabien.
>>>
>>>Fruit still has weaknesses that Shredder does not have and it extends too much.
>>>
>>>Limiting fruit's extensions may lead to at least 1 elo increase for fruit(at
>>>least 1 can be also 10 or 50 and I am simply not sure how much)
>>>
>>>Limiting fruit's qsearch so it does not need to search some minutes for mate in
>>>1 is going to lead to another elo increase.
>>>
>>>Some important extensions(see botvinik-markof extension) can again lead to
>>>another increase and tablebases may lead to another increase.
>>>
>>>My guess is that Fruit is going to earn more than 50 elo in the next year(more
>>>than 100 is also possible but I prefer to be careful in my estimate).
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Yes 100 in incredibly high
>>
>>even 50 is a pretty healthy increase
>>
>>I would like to see Fruit go deep and matched against Hydra
>>
>>Tom
>
>You may consider it as high but knowing all the disadvantages of Fruit it seems
>to me clearly possible.
>
>I support fruit because Fabien fights with hands behind his back because he
>cannot learn from code of Fritz and Shredder that is few months old when the
>opponents may learn from code of Fruit2.1
>
>I consider Fabien as the best active chess programmer even if Fruit will not
>keep the first place and Shredder10 becomes slightly better because of the fact
>that fabien is fighting for the first place in inferior conditions.
>
>Uri

Hi Uri

How long do you think it takes to analyse the code and implement the concepts
contained in the code ?

Do you think Fritz 9 has gotten benefit from fruit 2.1?

Tom
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