Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 21:43:19 09/10/98
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On September 10, 1998 at 21:21:29, Serge Desmarais wrote: > Your program was the Champion of the World at blitz against other >programs/computers, but I think you were not completely satisfied about how it >ranked in longer time tournament? Despite that it did very well, if I remember. In the 1995 WMCCC, with average hardware, it finished tied for third (highest bukholz points amongst the three programs tied for third), and beat both Genius and MChess, who finished first and second. In 1996 it got 6 wins and 5 draws to finish 1/2 point out of first, in clear 2nd place, on nice hardware (people either brought 200 mhz pentium pro's or used the supplied 133 mhz pentiums, mainly, and I brought a pentium pro 200). In this tournament Shredder won with one loss and two draws, but the loss was to me. In 1997, it had wonderful hardware (600 mhz alpha overclocked to 767 mhz), but it lost twice and drew a few times to finish tied for I think fourth, fifth on bukholz points. People can say whatever they want. They can say I got lucky in 1995. They can say that the field was poor in 1996. They can say that I should have done better on nice hardware in 1997. Perhaps all of this is true. I don't know. Of course I am unsatisfied, I didn't win any of these events. But I don't think that there is any evidence that my program is particularly deficient at longer time controls. bruce
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