Fruit 1.0 anniversary

[Xann]

Today is 2014-03-17.

Ten years ago, Fruit 1.0 was born. In honour of this occasion there will be two projects unveiled of which one is the following:

Daniel Mehrmann is initiating a "let's update Fruit" project called Fruit reloaded. It means what it looks like: add SMP to Fruit and upgrade search and evaluation with modern techniques. Daniel has already worked a lot on it with some help from Ryan Benitez. But he needs more contributors! Here is the GitHub page: https://github.com/Akusari/Fruit-reloaded-public I hope that some of you will join the effort. You can download a snapshot of the current development version at http://www.chessprogramming.net/fruit-reloaded/

Ryan is also preparing a Fruit-64 version for iOS. Fruit-64 is a bitboard chess program based on Fruit 2.2. Fruit-64 is heavily dependent on 64 bit hardware and will be released for iOS devices with A7 or newer hardware.

As for me, I wave goodbye to Fruit and am moving to new horizons which will be discussed in a separate thread.

Fabien.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Great news Fabien

Best regards,
Dr.D

[F. Bluemers]

cg and welcome back

fruit reloaded:
http://www.geenvis.net/RESULT.HTM

Best
Fonzy

[jpqy]

Thank you very much

Again new engines to play with..fantastic

Kind regards,
JP.

[Sedat Canbaz]

Great news Fabien

Best regards,
Dr.D

+1

[Henrik Dinesen]

Being absent from here for some years it's some nice news to return to !

Fruit's always been a special engine and I still have the old versions in my GUI's ready to take part in the analysis. That said, a Fruit reloaded to use the cores on the machine(s) is definately good news.

I'll soon take a course to learn to distinguish between the numbers 0 and 9, so it may last a while before I can contribute with the developement ... Maybe 2114.

... looking forward to that other tread too, Fabien.

Best,
Henrik

[Sven]

... looking forward to that other tread too

look here

[Sven]

Hi Fabien,

welcome back I really appreciate your new computer chess activities, and I wish you a lot of fun!

Sven

[Henrik Dinesen]

Thank you Sven

[mcostalba]

Today is 2014-03-17

Today is a good day for computer chess!

I downloaded senpai and give it a quick look (I will read it careful with time), I found a sense of familiarity and deja vu and I realized from where all this started: Fruit then Glaurung then Stockfish. Without your great engine even the engine I and other people work on would have not existed. IMHO you are one of the very few that really contributed to computer chess, one of the very few that opened a path that other people have followed.

So the news that you still have the will to dedicate time to this hobby is really a great news for all the community.

Sorry if now I ask a stupid technical question, but it is years that it bothers me. The random numbers of Polyglot book are really random or do you remember how you generated them? Eventually I'd like to use the original pseudo-random generator instead of copy the verbatim as are now:

https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/ ... c/book.cpp

Thanks for your answer.