Chess engines for Linux (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 25, 2007 21:17 UTC (Sun) by Los__D (guest, #15263)
In reply to: Chess engines for Linux (Linux.com) by nas
Parent article: Chess engines for Linux (Linux.com)

Note that even though Fruit 2.1 has a basic evaluation function, it plays stronger than all but the top programs. Fabien did a good thing by releasing the code under the GPL.

I've seen several arguments for keeping the evaluation function simple, as that is the piece of code getting the hardest beating, so fast code there means more PLY, which means better chess, often better than what clever evaluations get you. This seems to be another example of that :)