Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 01:37:05 06/26/05
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On June 26, 2005 at 04:18:34, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >>I have already posted several times that the experimental Shredder version that >>played against Hydra was heavely buggy (about 150 points weaker on long time >>controls), so it would have lost the match against any strong engine too. >> >>This means that we cannot use this match to compare Shredder with Hydra. >> >>Sandro > >"A heavily bugged version of Shredder that plays 150 points weaker" and still it >managed 4 draws against the strongest chess program in the world... somehow i >find that hard to believe. > >I have gone over the games with Shredder 9 and it looks to me like it is pretty >much the same engine, so can we conclude that Shredder 9 is heavily bugged? ;) >(just joking). By mistake part of the program was deleted, so when that part was important the program played much worst. Trying to avoid those problems I had to change the opening book and play from game 3 on different openings, but it was a nighmare situation...my expectation to draw some games, loosing others and without winning any, which I made to Stefan, was true... Stefan told me that I know Shredder better than him...:-) > >I would like to add that i am very impressed (like most) with how good Shredder >is in general and i am very pleased that i bought it! Thank you. I am glad to hear that. We believe we will make it stronger for the next commercial version... > >Jonas Sandro
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