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Subject: Re: Shredder 5 - first impressions

Author: K. Burcham

Date: 22:21:39 12/18/00

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i have maybe 1000+ games with shredder4 at most of the internet chess sites. it
is very user friendly. the install and uninstall with shredder is so much easier
than chessbase products.  but i lost a lot of games with shredder4, with my
opponent using an early kingside attack that shredder4 would not defend until to
late.  i hoped for more playing strength out of my shredder5, running on 1050
mhz, with namilov tbs. i can tell it is very strong because of the programs it
is beating and or drawing against at icc and chess.net. but anyone that thinks
these programs wont lose, just has not played the right opponent yet. why is it
when stefan runs this program in the world tournaments, it beats or draws the
top programs, but when it gets on the market, it loses some. i suspect the
biggest reason for this is the opening book. i think most of these programmers
have an opening book they only use for their tournament games and then another
book is sold in their programs to the public. do you think this is true? i have
played several hundred games with each of these programs on my 1050 mhz at
different internet chess servers: cm8000, junior6, fritz6, rebel-century 3.0,
gambit tiger, rebel tiger, rebel-tiger 2, nimzo 7.32, shredder4, shredder5,
gambit shredder, rebel century, chessgenius 6.5, fritz 5.32---also with a dual
750 pentium lll running diep and deep junior. with my system and the way i play
at each server, nothing wins for me as much as my fritz6. but for now i will use
my shredder5, even though it is losing more than i want it to.



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