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Subject: Re: Shredder

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 11:04:24 08/28/00

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On August 28, 2000 at 12:51:16, Chris Taylor wrote:

>On August 28, 2000 at 12:11:03, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>>
>>I am back in Germany and would like to thank everybody who supported me and
>>helped me winning this title. Also thanks to my fellow programmers for the nice
>>and fair competition in London. I have received many nice words recently, also
>>thanks for this.
>>
>>I guess I have to leave the academy awards mode now :-)
>>
>>I am quite satisfied with the games Shredder played in London. I had some nice
>>wins and Shredder played very strong in the endgame allowing to draw some bad
>>positions. I was probably lucky in a few games but without luck you can’t win
>>such a strong competition.
>>
>>If somebody has more questions about Shredder in London I will try to answer
>>them here.
>>
>>Stefan
>
>CONGRATULATIONS!
>
>I have a question about Shredder.  I have 4.00, and am running auto232 Matches.
>Are the default settings the strongest?  Or is there a few tweaks you know of
>that will let the program play even stonger.  I  am settling on 60 minutes per
>side.
>I have all sounds and disractions turned off!! All 3,4,and 5 piece endgame
>databses.. Shredder likes the Celeron 500.
>
>I will be buying New when it is released.  Back to the 4.00, any tips on playing
>strength, and the increasing thereof?
>
>Chris Taylor

I guess that you have strongest settings I know of. If you increae the hash size
you should be doing fine.

You try to switch of "combinations", but I haven't checked it with Shredder4,
but they will be likely switched off by default in Shredder5.

Stefan



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