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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 UCI or Shredder 8 CB-native?

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 10:29:30 01/20/04

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On January 20, 2004 at 02:53:03, Ernst Walet wrote:

>On January 19, 2004 at 19:35:49, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On January 19, 2004 at 17:32:44, Ernst Walet wrote:
>>
>>>I have an idea what is going on here.  Please try the following.
>>>
>>>1. delete or rename your shredder.plr file
>>>2. create an empty text file in your engine directory
>>>3. rename it to shredder.plr
>>>4. make it read only, so no data can be stored in it
>>>5. rerun your position
>>>
>>>Ernst.
>>>
>>>ps. please let me know your results.
>>
>>Shedder.eng and Shredder 8 UCI save the position in their shredder.plr file
>>after solving it.
>>
>>However Shredder 8.eng does not use this information at all if you rerun the
>>position. It just saves exactly the same information again in the shredder.plr
>>file. It still needs about 2 minutes to solve the position.
>>
>>Shredder 8 UCI finds the solution almost instantly if you rerun the position.
>>
>>Maybe Shredder 8 CB-native does not use position learning at all.
>>
>>Michael
>
>Do I understand that the results where the same after my "modification"?
>
>Ernst.

Probably not exactly the same. There is of course always a different (some
seconds) solution time if the testpositions are not solved in a few seconds.

But Shredder 8 UCI is also relatively slow here. Other engines found Rxe7 in a
few seconds.

Michael





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