Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:24:13 10/18/05
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On October 18, 2005 at 18:02:26, Majd Al-Ansari wrote: >On October 18, 2005 at 15:10:36, Mark R. Anderson wrote: > >>CCC Friends, >> >>I have heard that Toga is a Fruit clone. I presume this was done with the >>permission of the author, when Fruit was a free engine. So, what is the >>difference in style and capabilities between Fruit and Toga? Is Toga a >>"tweaked" Fruit, like Uri's Fruit version? >> >>What makes Toga separate from Fruit? I know from experience that Toga is a good >>and strong engine, but the engine it was based on, Fruit, is really a top >>engine, so one would expect that. So, I am wondering, why should I have Toga on >>my hard drive, if I have a much improved version of the engine it was derived >>from (Fruit 2.2). I mean no disrespect to the creator of Toga ... I am just >>curious. I have Hiarcs 9, 8, 7, etc, and also Fritz 8, 7, 6, 5, but I only >>tend to really play and analyze with the latest versions. So, what has Toga got >>that Fruit doesn't? Does it have a different playing style, or is it just >>perhaps Fruit 2.1+? >> >>Thanks for any comments or insight. >> >>Mark Anderson > > > >I was under the impression that Toga was just a different compilation of Fruit >2.1 which made it run faster thus giving a little more strength. That's wrong. Here is the Toga II readme file contents: Legal details ------------- Toga II 1.0 based on Fruit 2.1 by Fabien Letouzey. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA See the file "copying.txt" for details. General ------- Toga II 1.0 based on Fruit is a UCI-only chess engine. This distribution comes up only with Windows executable and platform-independent source code. Official distribution --------------------- You can download the GNU GPL Package (incl. sources) with Toga II based on Fruit at: http://www.uciengines.de/ or send an email to togaII@gmx.de Version ------- Toga II 1.0 based on Fruit 2.1 Following changes and extensions made: - improved history pruning - new/improved futility pruning - improved king safty - lazy evaluation - new evaluation features (exchange bonus, outpost knight etc.) Thanks Fabien Letouzey for the great source code of the program Fruit 2.1. Thomas Gaksch
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