Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:51:01 11/13/05
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On November 13, 2005 at 08:36:33, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >I see no surprise here. >Reason: Hardware. > >I don't know what hardware is used in Leiden, but I suspect that some of the >opponents of Fruit use powerful Dual or Quad systems. >Fruit is a great engine, and it may dominate the home users tournaments, but in >the _big_ official tourneys againts the multi-threaded engines. Same goes for >Hiarcs10 that performed unexpectedly low in the recent CCT- Blitz tournament. >Great engines, but cannot cope with the hardware dissadvantage. > >I think the time for a single threaded program winning those tourneys is comming >to an end. > >M2C >- Andy do not be sure about it. Fruit won second place in WCCC and shared first place in the CCT blitz tournament inspite of hardware disadvantage relative to part of the opponents. I think that single threaded programs may have better chance in the future when hardware becomes faster because of diminishing returns. Hardware is a factor but software is also a factor. Unfortunately fabien did not improve fruit significantly from the time of WCCC and spent time on unimportant things like tablebases. I believe that he is going to do it later and you may see better fruit(by more than 50 elo than fruit2.2.1) in a few months. Uri
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