Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:00:26 08/28/00
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On August 28, 2000 at 15:27:50, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >On August 28, 2000 at 14:55:12, Dann Corbit 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. >> >>First of all, you have a very impressive product, and I think it will be very >>hard to overlook Shredder in the future > >Was it hard to overlook in the past? :-) For some reason, the first win was a surprise to me (OK, I was ignorant). The second win was a mild surpise, since I figured on SSDF leaders. Now that I see your program does not know how to do anything but win, I think I will have to be surprised if it should ever lose again. ;-) >>(though the name does still bring to >>mind funny cartoon images with mutant turtles dancing about). > >No, please not this turtle thin again :-) Cowabunga, shredhead. Can't help it. My kids were grade school age when that hideous cartoon was all the rage. Unfortunately, I can recite how Splinter stopped Michelangelo from craving pizza by exercising the technique of "Kung pao" on him. ;) >>Does Shredder process standard EPD and create standard EPD output? If it does, >>then I will set up a process to use it for CAP data processing. > >Yes, this is possible since Shredder1. Is there a forum where all the Shredder folks hang out? I would like to get in touch with them to recruit them for the Chess Analysis Project.
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