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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 vs humans

Author: Peter Darin

Date: 01:55:30 11/04/04

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On November 02, 2004 at 22:10:27, Derek Paquette wrote:

>On November 02, 2004 at 20:23:54, eric guttenberg wrote:
>
>>Although it appears that Shredder 8 may be the strongest program in
>>computer vs computer games, I think I have seen statements on this site
>>that S8 is less effective vs humans than some of the other programs...
>>like Tiger, Hiarcs or Junior.
>>
>>Is there general agreement this is true? And on what is that opinion
>>based?
>>
>>eric
>
>Yes it is pretty much known that Shredder 8 has a weakness...or rather a lesser
>ability to battle humans than computers.  This is based souly on
>results....Shredder 8 simply does not win the amount of games expected by a top
>knotch program vs humans compared to other programs, especially Hiarcs 9.

But i read on Chessreviews.com that Shredder 8 is more of a positional chess
program. Also it won a strong Tournament recently vs Humans GM category as well
as IM Category.

Peter



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