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Subject: Re: Shredder 4

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:45:09 09/01/00

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On August 31, 2000 at 14:58:03, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>On August 31, 2000 at 09:21:57, EARL R. FULLER wrote:
>
>>Hi everyone, i'm just kind ok curious, just how strong is the Shredder 4 progam
>>in USCF rating ? And, for the second question, (lol) where would you rank this
>>program compared to say, (Fritz, which i don't own) running on an AMD k6/500
>>with 128 megs of sdram ? Or, where is the progam ranked, today, period ?
>>I own a collection of the old Fidelity chess computers dating way back, yes,
>>they all work, and work well i might add. Still can't beat them. lololol
>>If you own an old Fidelity and it doesn't play well, try opening up the case,
>>lift the chip's out of the socket, and reset it. It may be just the connection,
>>and may help. It has worked for me.
>>Anyway, with Shredder4, how good is this progam, in USCF ?
>
>
>>Thanks
>
>
>At least 2700 USCF and that would mean that Shredder on such a machine would
>beat the Fidelity machines 100% of the time.  Fidelity 0 - Shredder 4+ 100000000
>
>Is that good enough for you?
>
>
>Tim Frohlick


That is way too big an advantage.  Fidelity had 2300+ rating machine.  I have
one in my office in fact.  This machine would expect to win around 1 of every
16 games vs a 2700 opponent.



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