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Subject: Re: Amusing game - Shredder 5 is +4.68 up against GT and goes on to lose!!

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 09:37:36 12/15/00

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On December 14, 2000 at 20:31:56, James T. Walker wrote:

>On December 14, 2000 at 13:18:47, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>>I don't think I've ever seen such a wide margin diminish to defeat!
><snip>
>
>I have only had Shredder for 4 days but I saw this type of behavior a lot at
>blitz on an Athlon 900 Mhz.  Even at G/30 this seems to happen.  At G/60 on an
>Athlon 900 it has not showed up yet.  That's why I made the comment earlier
>"Shredder a mudder".  Refering to the fact that Shredder seems to like the
>slower time controls with faster hardware.  I suspect there are a lot of holes
>in it's eval that can only be covered up with deeper searches.  Just my opinion
>based on 4 days. :-)
>Jim
I had Shredder 5 for a 3 days, and I came with the same conclusion.  The
evaluations of Shredder changes as it digs deeper, which means that one way to
help Shredder is to use the fastest computer available, and slower time control.
Regards,
Laurence



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