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

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 08:04:05 01/31/01

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On January 31, 2001 at 09:29:49, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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.

You can dump it. In my games, Shredder 5 didn't play one single killer line.

Enrique



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