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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