Author: James T. Walker
Date: 07:28:06 12/19/00
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On December 19, 2000 at 01:21:39, K. Burcham wrote: >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. I suspect you are playing a lot of "fast" games with Shredder. It is NOT a blitzer in my opinion. But at Game/1 hour it is winning almost every match I have played so far. I suspect at 40/2 (like SSDF) it will be fighting for the number 1 spot. I think one of the problems with the computer championships is that the operators have too much input in controlling the opening that is played. Selecting the right opening becomes critical. When you get only one chance at an opponent you have to study him and find the right line to play. I suspect the top contenders do this very well. Jim
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