Author: Marcus Kaestner
Date: 15:51:57 08/16/00
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>>remember last year. everyone was sceptic when i predicted shredder to win the >>title. now everyone is sceptic when i predict chessbase NOT to win the title. >>we will see... > >Yes, it was a surprise. >How did you guess? because i was sure that shredder was far the best at that time in a 7-round tournament. why? because 1. on 7 rounds the booklearner is not important 2. on that machine (under nt, with 500mb ram) shredder hardly looses a game 3. shredder hardly throw away an advantage against weak opponents 4. stefan and i prepared the engine and the book for the wcc. our tests showed similiar results as they occured in he tournament. so we both were very sure that shredder will win the title. > >It is clear that shredder was not the best because other programs like Ferret shredder was the best program that time for a 7-round tournament. >and the chessbase programs had hardware advantage that could give them more than >50 elo and the difference between shredder4 and the top programs of that time on >equal hardware is not bigger than 50 elo(for example the difference between >shredder4 and Fritz5.32 is probably less than 50 elo). hardware is much less important than good preparation. > >Do you believe that stefan forced luck by good opening prepration? we tried. but unfortunately there were too many holes in the book. but the lines which was played generelly did not fit very well to the style of the opponent. so in the end they were not able to win, even when they had an advantage after the opening. > >Did stefan planned the openings to push the opponents to positions that they do >not understand? for example. marcus
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