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Subject: Re: Shredder 5 - first impressions

Author: Christopher A. Morgan

Date: 05:53:29 12/19/00

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Thanks for your post. Your extensive experience gives us a good
guide to relative strength.  Have you kept detailed records of
all computer-computer games?  If so would like to see the results.
Thanks.

Chris



On December 19, 2000 at 01:21:39, K. Burcham wrote:

>i have maybe 1000+ games with shredder4 at most of the internet chess sites. it
>is very user friendly. the install and uninstall with shredder is so much easier
>than chessbase products.  but i lost a lot of games with shredder4, with my
>opponent using an early kingside attack that shredder4 would not defend until to
>late.  i hoped for more playing strength out of my shredder5, running on 1050
>mhz, with namilov tbs. i can tell it is very strong because of the programs it
>is beating and or drawing against at icc and chess.net. but anyone that thinks
>these programs wont lose, just has not played the right opponent yet. why is it
>when stefan runs this program in the world tournaments, it beats or draws the
>top programs, but when it gets on the market, it loses some. i suspect the
>biggest reason for this is the opening book. i think most of these programmers
>have an opening book they only use for their tournament games and then another
>book is sold in their programs to the public. do you think this is true? i have
>played several hundred games with each of these programs on my 1050 mhz at
>different internet chess servers: cm8000, junior6, fritz6, rebel-century 3.0,
>gambit tiger, rebel tiger, rebel-tiger 2, nimzo 7.32, shredder4, shredder5,
>gambit shredder, rebel century, chessgenius 6.5, fritz 5.32---also with a dual
>750 pentium lll running diep and deep junior. with my system and the way i play
>at each server, nothing wins for me as much as my fritz6. but for now i will use
>my shredder5, even though it is losing more than i want it to.



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