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Subject: Re: Chessbase sinks even deeper

Author: Paul Petersson

Date: 11:23:04 09/11/01

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On September 11, 2001 at 07:02:38, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 11, 2001 at 06:34:53, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>>On September 10, 2001 at 14:30:11, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On September 09, 2001 at 14:23:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 09, 2001 at 13:17:49, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>They won the most important competition time after time (the ssdf list) and
>>>>>other programs could top the list only for a short time.
>>>>
>>>>The most important competition is the championship.
>>>>
>>>>The SSDF list is a closed highly controversial closed group
>>>>where not all programs participate. IMHO it's meaningless.
>>>
>>>Mathematically, it's far better data.  Of course, it is valid only for the exact
>>>conditions of the matches (but the same is true of world championships).
>>>
>>>Shredder got reamed, not even being allowed to enter the competition.  But I
>>>suspect that an 8 CPU version of Fritz or Junior is probably stronger anyway.
>>>That's an awfully large speed boost.
>>>
>>
>>I suspect that Shredder on a eight-CPU machine is stronger than Fritz and Junior
>>on a single-CPU machine. I do not know which speed-up get these three programs
>>on such a machine, but having no data I suspect it is about the same.
>>I have no reason to suspect that Fritz or Junior on a eight-CPU machine are
>>clearly stronger than Shredder on an identical machine.
>>José.
>
>I have reasons to believe that Fritz is always better than shredder
>on identical machine.
>
>Fritz6 is better than shredder4 based on the ssdf list(shredder4 that was
>hiding under the name 204 was only slightly better than Fritz5.32)
>Deep Fritz is also clearly better than shredder5.32 based on
>the results that I see.
>
>I have reasons to believe that all the top
>programs are on the ssdf list and
>we only do not get information about shredder5's rating

All "secret" ratings of S3, S4, S5 and other programs will be revealed in the
next SSDF list. It should be out within two weeks or so.

Paul


 but shredder
>was never number 1 except some championships and I believe that
>the main reason was simply
>better opening preperation of the shredder's team and some luck.
>
>Uri



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