Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 13:44:38 11/12/05
When autoplaying Fruit 2.2.1 vs Shredder 8 on my 1.5 Ghz AMD 512 MB machine and alloting 64 MB RAM for 4 minute Blitz chess, I noticed that Fruit 2.2.1 scores about 50 elo points stronger than Shredder 8 when it uses its own Book.bin 1.4 MB opening book vs the Shredder's native Shredder8.ctg opening book. On the other hand, Fruit 2.2.1 scores 50 elo points weaker than Shredder 8 when both programs use the Shredder 8 opening book. I am sure that Fruit is an excellent program and has a slightly different playing style than Shredder with often differing evaluation scores. I also notice that Fruit 2.2.1 is doing 50% more node searches than Shredder 8 on the same processor with pondering off. I assume that Fruit 2.2.1 is using more refined knowledge-based algorithms than Shredder 8. Nevertheless, the fact that Fruit 2.2.1 does better with its own book suggests than book tuning is in effect. I am impressed with Fruit 2.2.1 and would pay twenty dollars more for Fritz 9 if Fruit 2.2.1 was included as a secondary engine. I may pay the $33.xx USD fee within the next 13 days if Chessbase doesn't include Fruit 2.2.1 with Fritz 9. Sincerely, Uncle Timbo PS If Lucien could sell 100,000 copies at an extra $10.00-$15.00 USD profit from his program bundled with Fritz 9 the guy could have a cool $1,000,000.00 USD within one year. He could then retire to a tropical island like that fellow Christophe Theron. Perhaps he could even buy a Jaguar.
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