Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:07:23 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 08:53:45, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >Shredder won the WMCCC, and even if there is an important luck factor in any 9 >rounds event, the fact that it won for the second consecutive time, together >with the quality of its games, makes quite clear that sheer luck was not the >reason for Shredder's success. In my opinion, Shredder is the strongest in the >endgame and, together with Junior, has probably the best evaluation functions of >all programs. On the other hand, it lacks the search speed of Fritz, Tiger, >Nimzo and The King. Are you sure about it? Stefan told me that one of the things that he worked about was tactics. My chessmaster6000(ss=10) needed some hours to avoid Qxb4 [D]r3rb1k/6p1/p2p3p/1ppb4/PB6/5NRP/1q3PP1/1B1QR1K1 b - - 0 1 I think that Fritz will also have problems with this position and my only program that can avoid Qxb4 is Junior5.9 (and I guess that also Junior6a). <snipped> >Shortly before London, I played these games with Shredder 4.22 on 2 P600E >machines with 256MB RAM and the same WMCCC time controls. S4.22 beat neatly the >other 2 betas I made it play against, by 6-0 in one of the matches. The overall >results were great, and the final Shredder 5 will be even better, I'm sure of >it. Enjoy. I do not see 6-0 in the games that you posted but only draws against Fritz6b and Junior6a. It is a disappointing result after the impressive result in WMCCC. Uri
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