Author: Harald Faber
Date: 21:11:26 12/28/99
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On December 28, 1999 at 20:15:52, Vicente Fernández wrote: >Here I post the games of a minimatch between Rebel Century and Shredder 4, on >two computers, one k6III-400, 128 ram, and the other a K6II-300, 128 ram. Games >in 30 minutes each, handled manually. Programs played alternating computers. >Rebel Century play with its strongest settings plus antigrandmaster= smart, 60 >hash. Shredder played with 90 hash. > Frankly, I expected much more from Shredder 4. A 3.5-0.5 result for Rebel was >too much for me, but then came the surprise. As far as I can see, Shredder's >book needs improvement: The World Champion starts thinking when Rebel still has >three or more moves on its book. And the evaluation... just see for yourselves: >it just keeps jumping from +40 to - 1.40 and so on, while Rebel's is steady and >reliable. I don't know what's the matter with Shredder 4 (yes, I turned the >commentary off etc. etc.), but it doesn't look like a World Champ in my >machines. And considering the unsteady evaluations, I won't use it either for >game analysis. Compared to Hiarcs 7.32, Rebel Century, Chessmaster 6000, Fritz 6 >(light), Fritz 5.32 or Junior 5, Shredder 4 's evaluation is a joke. Please, >take a look at the games and to the jumpy evaluations. Compare them to the ones >you get from Rebel Century and see the difference. >Vicente F. Herrasti > Apparently you, like some others, underestimate Rebel. And 4 games rapid chess is a) very few and b) not comparable with tournament time control.
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