Author: James T. Walker
Date: 19:58:06 12/18/00
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On December 18, 2000 at 19:58:26, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On December 18, 2000 at 18:09:27, Peter Berger wrote: > >>GUI is simply marvellous ; I have never seen anything better so far . > >You're absolutely right. The GUI is outstanding no matter what your preference >might be and you can configure almost anything. > >>I haven't checked on many new features yet ; there seems to be a lot to keep you >>busy for _very_ long . > >All the features, with the exception of tournament play, are available. The ease >with which you can install and run matches with WinBoard engines more than >compensates for that. > >>Time will tell what it's worth and SSDF is a hard challenge . > >If they choose to test it, which I hope they do. > >>Yet this program is so great :-) .. > >Yep, I agree. Did you remember to download the patch? > >Mogens "Not speaking as spokesperson for Gambit-Soft" Larsen I wish I could agree with you guys but I can't. If you don't mind paying twice what would be a fair price then maybe you can be happy with it. I've had it a week now and I'm satisfied with it's strength at longer time controls. At Game/30 or less it seems to suffer from some unknown malady. The GUI is pretty smooth but it is my first Shredder and the help files seem to be written for some other program (Maybe Shredder 4). Maybe you can tell me what the "Ettiquette" setting is for? I get messages in the endgame like: "Looking for a win for white CD1 CD2 CD3 CD4" and "endgame database not found" I have the 3/4/5 man endgame tablebases in "D:\tb\" and it seems to use them most of the time, so why the messages? The database functions are primitive but do work. For instance there is no "Math" functions like computing ELO and no easy way to copy files to a different database. No way to do a crosstable of a match/tournament just played. The line at the top that shows the win/loss/draw info during an auto232 match disappears at the end of the match just when I would like to read it. There are many functions which have absoultly no mention in the "help" section. The Nimzo2000 program supplied with it is terrible. It will only play auto232 as "Master" and then only with white. (And this from the guys that created auto232) I have written several emails and recieved a partial answer to one. So compared to Chessbase it comes up way short. I haven't even looked at the SOS program so I can't comment on it. Frankly I am only interested in the "World Champion" and that is the reason I payed the too high price. I believe ChessMaster 8000 at 25% of the price is a better deal by far. And at least they are planning a patch to fix the bugs in it. (Yes I downloaded the patch which does nothing for me) Jim
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