Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 12:34:36 11/13/05
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On November 13, 2005 at 13:44:44, Uri Blass wrote: >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 In Leiden played the unmodified Fruit 2.2.1. We have a dev-version which I believe is stronger but so far we have too less data for a certain decision and Jeroen did not like the idea to gamble. Fabien is working on SMP right now and the target is Spring 2006 for a decent implementation. It is just a too complex task and differs probably for any engine to give a more precise roadmap. Joachim
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