Author: Uri Blass
Date: 21:36:32 03/02/01
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On March 01, 2001 at 17:13:21, Detlef Pordzik wrote: >On March 01, 2001 at 16:27:01, K. Burcham wrote: > >>does anyone know how much ram was on stefans dual 933 system. does anyone know >>what he had the hash set at for these tournament games. also do you know who >>prepares stefans opening books that he uses in winning so many tournaments. >> >> >>thanks > >As far as I know it was 2 times 512 MB - not a totally secure info. > >The settings are quite naturally the same as the optimum for tournament games - >the total RAM ammount is not important for this feature, at least not beyond >certain minimum barriers. > >From my personal time beeing his book cooker, I could give my word, that there >are NO specific book preps at all - as long as the current, sales release is >starting, it uses the tournament book. >The book, stand alone, is surelly NOT the magic behind the overwhelming success >of this prog. I disagree. I believe that stefan knows better which opening to choose against the opponents. I remember that he admitted in previous tournament that the decision about the first move was based on the opponent. Shredder is a good program but even a program that is 100 elo better than the opponents cannot win almost every tournament and I believe that Shredder won all the tournaments in 1999-2000. I do not believe that shredder is more than 100 elo better than programs like Deep Fritz,Gandalf,Nimzo even after considering the fact that it has better hardware than Gandalf and Nimzo that is less than twice faster. In previous tournaments the situation was even worse when in one of them Shredder won WCCC inspite of being probably sligtly weaker than parallel Fritz,Deep Junior and Ferret and being not more than 100 elo stronger than programs like Nimzo,Hiarcs,Rebel and Tiger. Uri
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