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Subject: Re: Fruit also

Author: Shaley

Date: 22:11:12 09/06/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 10:44:52, Marc Lacrosse wrote:

>On September 06, 2005 at 05:57:25, Shaley wrote:
>
>>On September 06, 2005 at 05:30:20, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>
>>>>In my opinion, there're only two best programmes to date:
>>>>Shredder and Hiarcs.
>
>>>IMHO, Fruit also belongs to this special category.
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>Matthias.
>>
>>Well, may be Fruit WCCC is not that bad. However, the public version 2.1 seems a
>>little inferior to Shredder or Hiarcs.
>
>(...)
>
>Inferior to Shredder 9 undoubtedly, by more or less 35 elo points.
>But were did you see that hiarcs 9 is superior to Fruit 2.1 ?
>
>In the CEGT tests at 40/40, there were 134 direct games between F21 and Hiarc9.
>F21 won 63.8% (+61 =49 -24)and Fruit is estimated 45 points higher than hiarcs
>with more than 95% statistical comfidence after thousands of games.
>
>See http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/rangliste.html#3
>
>Regards
>
>Marc

Hi Marc,
I'm sorry if I've made myself misunderstood or my statement could hurt you in
any way. I'm not a CC man, so these endless engine-to-engine matches mean very
little to me. As an OTB player, I was just playing long games with all of the
three engines and tested them on various complicated tactical positions from GM
practice. So I've got an impression that Hiarcs 9 (even Hiarcs 9 as I don't have
the latest H10 version now) acts in a more intelligent way than the other 2
engines. In other words, when it comes to tactics or evaluating complicated
tactical game positions, it's HIM that I trust more.
And I'm very fascinated with Fruit 2.1 too. It plays really good chess and
reminds me of the late Tigran Petrosyan or still alive old Vassily Smyslov with
its maneuvring and positional play. When one wants to work on improving his
positional skills, there's nothing like playing game matches with Fabien's
programme. I come to think I wish I could buy Fruit WCCC even more than Zappa
2.0 commercial. However, I presume, it's still debatable because Fabien is in
two minds whether to release the commercial version or not.
As I understand, he's not very commercially-minded guy being more a creative
nature.
Regards,
Alexander



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