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Subject: Re: What's wrong with Shredder?

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 02:51:27 02/20/99

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On February 19, 1999 at 08:32:37, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On February 19, 1999 at 04:48:53, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>>To be honest I also think that Shredder has a pretty bad reputation for reasons
>>unknown to me. This has been like this since Jakarta, when everybody claimed
>>that this was just pure luck and was only possible because there was no other
>>strong program around. Still today if somebody post a message here and is
>>numbering the top programs I have never seen anybody mentioning Shredder.
>
>I beg your pardon! :)
>
>I know of at least one guy that recently posted games played by Shredder 3 day
>after day for 2 weeks, as part of a tournament where Shredder scored better than
>50% against all the best commercials.

Oh yes, sorry, I forgot :-)
Your tournament was really great and I enjoyed watching it a lot. But still I
think there is some truth in my arguments.

Stefan


>> Well,
>>maybe I should really spend more time in here to read ALL the articles :-)
>>
>>OK, I don't want to complain too much and keep on working to improve Shredder,
>>so here's my question:
>>
>>What's wrong with Shredder?
>
>Nothing at all. It is one of the best. By the way, yesterday I received Shredder
>3 for Millenium, so I can even pick the interface I like best. Good for you!
>
>Enrique
>
>>Any input would be nice and really welcome. Does it play weak chess? (Did you
>>really play games or just run some tests?) Do you want it to solve test
>>positions or play games? Do you rather have a blitz monster that plays strong at
>>3min/game on a Pentium 100 or do you rather have something for longer
>>timecontrols and analysis? Do you hate the GUI? What's missing?
>>
>>I would really love to get some feedback.
>>
>>Stefan (author of Shredder)
>>
>>
>>PS: About computer chess world championships: You can be very sure that Shredder
>>or any other program of mine will compete in every computer chess world
>>championships around for the next 10 years at least. OK? No doubt about that!
>>This has always been one of my major interests for various reasons, so please
>>don't worry about that.



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