Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:44:44 11/13/05
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On November 13, 2005 at 13:34:27, Peter Wolff wrote: >On November 13, 2005 at 13:27:57, steve j s joyce wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >> Zappa has clearly been having very strong results. Does anyone know the >>innovations that are being used, or is better hardware the key? >> >>Regards, >>Steve > > >Zappa does appear to be very, very strong, but exactly how strong it is will be >seen only when it's released to the general public and can be tested under equal >conditions (either as a single cpu version or a multi-processor version, playing >other engines that are not handicapped by lack of strong HW). > >It seems that Zappa's release is imminent though :-) > >My prediction is that it will have to do much better than in the short events >such as the WCCC or Leiden to show that's better than Deep Shredder on a fast >dual or quad box, or even stronger than the new SMP Gandalf, for that matter. >Not to mention the new kid on the block which is getting ready to go SMP, >Fruit... > >In any case, we will soon be having lots of fun :-) I do not think that fruit is ready to go SMP I understand that Fabien plans to do it SMP only in spring 2006 and this mean half year from now and today there are other things that are planned earlier like backward analysis capability and weak levels. http://www.fruitchess.com/future-plans.htm I wonder if newer version than Fruit2.2.1 played in this tournament. Uri
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