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Subject: Re: fruit 2.2. looking very weak at short time controls

Author: Russell

Date: 22:40:51 12/10/05

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On December 10, 2005 at 17:03:12, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:

>The evidence (requested by someone ) that fruit may be poor at short time
>controls is below. In contrast, fritz 8 seems rather strong
>
>People have hypothesized that it is due to poor time management. I have seen
>fruit make very bad use of time in 2 12 time controls, but fruit  seems to use
>time similarly to other engines at 5 0. However, to reduce the issue of time
>management, i followed someones suggestion and ran 1 1 tournements (see below).
>Fruit 2.2.1 is still a bit crappy. why does fruit 2.2. look so weak?
>
>
>this is running on a pentium 2 ghz 598 mhz, 1 gb ram. Nunn 2 test set
>
>the first set is from a 5 0 tournement, which i stopped because someone
>suggested it is better to run it at 1 1 .
>
>fritz 8       35.5/54
>rybka         30.5/52
>spike 1       29.5/53
>fritz 9       29.5 /53
>toga 1.1      28/53
>fruit 2.2     25.5/53
>pro deo 1.1   21.5/54
>ruffian 2.1   21/53
>list 512      18/53
>
>
>Tournement 1 minute + 1 sec increment (in progress)
>
>fritz 9      20/29
>toga II.1    19/29
>fritz 8      18/30
>rybka 1. 0    16/28
>spike 1.0a    13/28
>pro deo       12.5/30
>fruit 2.2      12.5/29
>ruffian 2.1    11.0/29
>list 512       9/29
>
>
>Maybe fruit will turn it around and start winning more in a couple of hundred
>games. Has anybody else observed this weakness (and therefore can save me the
>trouble of running the tournement)

I agree with 1 +1 Fruit is not that strong. Rybka and DS9 are killer tho.



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