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Subject: Re: Too much?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:59:21 11/01/05

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On November 01, 2005 at 04:50:38, James Constance wrote:

>In my experience, Fruit seems to be very good at grinding out a win from approx
>equal positions, especially in the endgame, and its evaluation tends to be
>accurate even when the opposing engine thinks it has a big advantage.  This
>wouldn't be anything to do with these extensions would it?  Although, everybody
>seems to agree that Fruit is extending too much, is it possible that this is a
>source of its strength?
>
>(Don't ask me, I'm not a programmer - but whatever Fruit is doing, it seems to
>work!)

I think that the source of fruit's strength relative to opponents is superior
evaluation and maybe superior pruning or superior order of moves.

I do not think that extensions is the reason for it's strength.

Uri



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