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Subject: Re: Will Shredder 5 allow the user to set their own settings ?

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 00:45:00 06/13/00

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On June 12, 2000 at 17:52:08, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On June 11, 2000 at 22:50:44, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>On June 11, 2000 at 20:55:39, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>On June 11, 2000 at 20:04:22, pete wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 11, 2000 at 19:53:08, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 11, 2000 at 13:59:52, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On June 11, 2000 at 11:19:32, Terje Vagle wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Is the default settings for Shredder 4 the strongest?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I've seen some suggestions that it might play better with "combinations" off.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks for any feedback.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Terje Vagle
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I am not sure, so I am testing it right now. It was better with combination on
>>>>>>some time ago, but it might have changed as computers are getting faster and
>>>>>>faster.
>>>>>>Any comments welcome.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Stefan
>>>>>
>>>>>I own Fritz 6a, CM6000 and I am planning to buy your next version of Shredder
>>>>>only if you make it similar to CM6000, which allow the users to experiment with
>>>>>differents settings. We (the users) will help you find the best settings
>>>>>possible for your next version of Shredder.
>>>>>
>>>>>Pichard
>>>>
>>>>This has been possible in Shredder forever . You can adjust the settings quite
>>>>similar to the way you are used to in CM ; just giving fancy names to the
>>>>created personalities is a feature yet missing .
>>>
>>>Thanks for the information Pete, the fancy names to the crerated personalities
>>>is not important to me.  I will now buy Shredder 4 and in the next five weeks I
>>>will try different settings and test every one of them against Fritz 6a
>>>always using the same opening line until I figure out which is the best settings
>>>for Shredder 4.
>>>
>>>Pichard
>>
>> Looking forward to your testing! Here is a little starter for you:
>>
>> First remember to switch Announce Moves and Comment Moves OFF.
>>
>> Then: Combinations OFF  Strategic Search ON  Pawn Structures ON  Plans ON
>>       Piece Values: Q=100  R=100  B=100  Kn=100  P=100
>>       Forward Pruning=2
>>       Selectivity=14
>>       Draw Value=0
>>
>>       Evaluation Parameters:
>>
>>       King Safety=110
>>       Pawn Structures=105
>>       Passed Pawns=110
>>       Bishop Pair=100
>>       Center Control=105
>>       Knowledge=100
>>
>>       Good luck!
>
>Mr Larsson thank for your settings suggestions, but  I prefer to set the
>Combination to OFF simply because the computers are getting faster Nowadays, but
>not as fast as to be able to set the Selectivity to 20 yet, instead I would
>rather lower it down to 14, unless your are playing games, in long time control
>, such as 40 moves in two hours using an AMD Athlon 1000 Mhz at least. The King
>Safety I prefer to lower down to 110 since a higher value will keep the king
>hiden for too long in the corner without taking part early on  the
>endgame when it is needed.  Now the passed pawns I would rather raise it to 110
>and finally the Center Control up a little bit to 105. Those are my initial
>suggestions, but I will make proper adjustment according to my test result.
>
>Since I have not received the software yet, I wonder if Shredder allow you to
>set different Pieces Values beside 100 as you suggested? I like to set up the
>value of the bishop a little bit higher than the knight, and the queen value
>almost equivalent to two rooks.

Yes, this is possible in Shredder4.

Stefan

>
>Pichard



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