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Subject: Re: Fruit 2.2 Observations

Author: Ryan B.

Date: 00:51:20 10/05/05

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On October 05, 2005 at 03:25:53, Mike van Rooyen wrote:

>I have mixed feelings about Fruit2.2.It can play some very ugly positional moves
>that engines like Fritz and Shredder would never play.Maybe this is the new
>chess!
>However,when it comes to the endgame it's another story.I often see it come out
>of the middlegame worse and then proceed to outplay its opponent in the endgame.
>It has not fared well against Shredder in the Nunn (20 game) test and loses
>every time on the black side of the French C19.Shredder also loses from this
>position nearly every time  against most strong engines to the 'Greek gift'.
>Testing continues...
>Mike


I dont know about 2.2 but I think fruit 2.1 plays shockingly good positional
chess for a program having such a small eval function.



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