Author: gerold daniels
Date: 16:34:09 11/12/05
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On November 12, 2005 at 17:06:06, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Fabien Letouzey is the author of Fruit 2.2.1. I am not sure about Lucien. I was >confabulating. My observations about his excellent program were pretty accurate >though. > >TJ > Hello TJ. Thanks for the news. I been using Fruit's own book,Sedat's perfect bk.and Little main book. All the games come out about the same. Fruit wins with all of these books. Be nice if you could find time to play more games and post the results. :) Gerold. > >On November 12, 2005 at 16:44:38, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>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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