Author: James T. Walker
Date: 08:55:51 03/11/01
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On March 10, 2001 at 20:56:51, Laurence Chen wrote: >On March 10, 2001 at 20:25:45, EARL R. FULLER wrote: > >>Hi everyone, well so far Shredder 5 has not done so well. At 30sec. per. move >>Genius 5 is ahead 5 games to 2 and 3 draws. >>So, there must be some settings i must have to do, perhaps on the engine, etc. >>Maybe, in opions, i need to adjust playing styl ? What do you suggest ? >>I have Shredder 4, and it plays well. >>I tried the triple Brain, lololol, Hmmmmm, didn't do to well. >>I must be missing something. Can anyone help out? >>I'm runing 48 megs in hash and 4 megs in cache. >>I haven't touched any other settings except to turn off all the opions in the >>windows, like move list, voice, etc. >>Hope you can help. >>Thanks, Earl >Perhaps S5 is not the best engine in match play, it's a better engine in >Tournament Play. There's a big difference in match play and tournament play, >for example, Botvinnik was not the best player in tournament play, he was very >tough in Match Play, the same can be said of Victor Korchnnoi, he was a great >tournament player, he won many international tournaments, and he has the best >record in tournament play, however, when it comes to match play, he failed to >win these type of contests. This could be the case with S5, it's just an >observation, the SSDF shows that Deep Fritz is current the best chess engine in >match play, however, Deep Fritz finished second to S5 in the last computer >tournament play this year. >Regards, > >Laurence Hello Laurence, Your point is well taken but computers??? There should be no difference in performance at tournaments unless the programmers are doing something special at tournaments that us ordinary people do not do when making our own comparisons. Of course you can not compare a 10 game tournament to hundreds of games played vs varied opponents or even a 10 game match vs one opponent. They are different things with different environments. I owm Shredder 5 and I'm pleased with the program. I also received Deep Shredder free and I'm happy to have it also. I believe that Shredder is better at longer time controls/faster computers than short time controls/slower computers. It is not very impressive as a blitzer but at 3 minutes / move it is very impressive in my opinion. I don't believe it's the strongest program out there at any time control but it is one of the strongest at 3min/move. Jim
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