Author: pavel
Date: 07:18:26 09/24/00
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On September 24, 2000 at 02:26:26, Harald Faber wrote: >Hi all, >sorry for not posting frequently but my time is limited... >Besides some improvements in the GUI one expected a stronger engine for the new >Tiger. You can imagine how astonishe I was when I played several games with the >new Tiger/K7-500 against Shredder4/K6-200 (g/120) and Shredder led by 4.5-2.5 >after 7 games. Although I know how strong Shredder is even on tha slow >200MHz-machine, but this result was unbelievable. it is not unbelievable, shredder 4 is still strong enough to be a threat to any chess program in the world. I have the whole millenium package, which I bought few months ago. but I guess it was a bad decision to buy it now, I should have waited as shredder 5 is 'around the corner'. I was not sure if this was due >to strange engine progress or due to the book. Because of some trouble getting >the London-book started, in these 7 games the "original", small book was used. >After these 7 games I stoped that match, I have seen enough. I managed to get >the London-book to work finally successful. I started the match again, and what >I say is just WOW! I have stopped the match at a standing of 5-0 for Tiger! >Not even Tiger 12e crushed Shredder that clear. And look at the games, there are >wins in the endgame although Shredder is said to be very strong in there and had >access to all 5-man TBs! > >See the games below and enjoy! >(And get eager for the new Tiger :-)) > > yes and also get eager for the new shredder.... your 'experiment' proves only one thing. that is, tiger won only because of its better book, since according to you tiger played much better when book has been changed. also note that shredder is one of those programs which plays *significantly* better with faster processors, ( I think I read that several times somewhere in this forum). In same hardware things could be differant. then ofcourse there is this question of not having enough games.... thats why we have something called "SSDF" ...:)) Pavel
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