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Subject: Re: Have You seen this: quite unbelievable!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:29:49 01/31/01

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On January 31, 2001 at 08:35:34, Sandro Necchi wrote:

>On January 31, 2001 at 01:00:18, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>http://www.computerschach.de/tourn/cad2001/cad2001.htm
>>
>>In Gadeques tournament Deep Fritz - Shredder 5 ended 10-10. But 14 games were
>>won by white! And I thought, that whites advantage is minimal in computer chess.
>>Have programs killer books or what?
>
>As far as Shredder 5.0 is concerned there are no killer variations. The book is
>made mainly for the human players and with a lot of alternatives to make it play
>different lines. There are very few very long variations. Of course there are
>good move against weak ones, but not deep variations.
>So, it is a sort of compromise to make the program fun to play with.
>Since we drew 6 games and lost 7, there is still a a lot of room for
>improvements...
>
>Sandro Necchi
>>
>>Jouni

I'm saving this message to quote later in my life.






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