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Subject: Re: Is Fruit 2.2 weakened by additional security code?

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 01:57:54 10/11/05

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On October 11, 2005 at 04:15:00, Mark Mason wrote:

>On October 11, 2005 at 03:10:50, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>no.
>>mainly fruit2.2 is weakened by bugs in some chess GUI's that do change internal
>>switches in fruit if you don't care using it in these ChessBase GUI's.
>
>
>In the Chessbase GUI, I have found that if you just load Fruit 2.2 without
>opening up the engine parameters, the settings are left alone (I think...but of
>course you can't check !)
>
>However, if you load the Fruit 2.2 engine and open the engine parameters, and
>then close them with the "OK" button, that's when the CB GUI switches off
>EXTENDED FUTILITY and HISTORY PRUNING (yes...it really does), thus weakening the
>engine. If you close engine parameters using Cancel (rather than OK)  it also
>doesn;t change the settings. This has been my experince....anyone else can
>confirm ?
>
>When I first got Fruit 2.2 I didn't realise this and was losing frequently
>against weaker programs.  Since being made aware of it (via this forum - thanks)
>then performance has increased dramatically.
>
>Previous threads have suggested that this is being addressed but I can't recall
>whetehr the fix will  be in  CB GUI update, or a Fruit 2.2 next relesae ?  Does
>anyone know ?
>
>Regards,
>
>Mark

see http://www.fruitchess.com/known-problems.htm




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