Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 06:30:33 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 09:07:23, Uri Blass wrote: >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. The new Shredder has improved a lot in tactics, among other things, and Shredder 5 will be improved further, but it is still far in this regard from the very fast searchers. >My chessmaster6000(ss=10) needed some hours to avoid Qxb4 >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. I don't post beta games, unless the programmer gives his permission. >It is a disappointing result after the impressive result in WMCCC. It is not disappointing at all to tie against Fritz and Junior. If you add up the great results against the 2 betas I mentioned, then you have that Shredder did very well in my games. I have been not surpised at all at Shredder's performance in London. I expected it to do very well in there and I'm glad it did. Enrique >Uri
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