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Subject: Re: What's the Secret to Shredder 7.04 Success?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 20:22:05 05/03/03

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On May 03, 2003 at 21:28:30, Jim Bond wrote:

>On May 03, 2003 at 17:52:40, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On May 03, 2003 at 17:50:36, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>><snipped>
>>>I know about programs that tablebases were counter productive for mchess because
>>>it probed them too much and was slowed down by asignificant factor.
>>
>>I meant here that mchess is an example for a program that tablebases was counter
>>productive for it.
>>
>>Uri
>
>If you believe that more TB probing is counter productive, you are contradicting
>with Shredder - the top program.  Take this position for example:
>
>2k5/8/7p/8/5qP1/1Q5K/8/8 w - - 0 72
>
>If you run infinite analysis on it with Shredder 7.04, Fritz 0.008 and
>ChessTiger 15, you will find that the Shredder accumlates TB counts about 8
>times more than Fritz and about 16 times more than ChessTiger.  If TB probing is
>counter productive, how come Shredder does it so much more and can still be at
>the top?
>
>Jim

Just because Shredder is at the top doesn't mean it plays this particular
position better than other programs, i.e., the fact that it does so many more
probes does not mean that more probes are good.

-Tom



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