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Subject: Re: Shredder 6 First Impressions & Playing Opening Gambits

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 02:07:12 12/18/01

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On December 18, 2001 at 04:29:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 18, 2001 at 03:00:55, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>>I received Shredder 6 yesterday.  Having spent a couple of hours playing around
>>with it, my impressions are positive!  I don't have Shredder 5.32 but do have
>>the original Shredder 5.  The upgrade seems to be much more tactically nimble
>>than S5, aggressive and, like all top engines, accutely aware of king safety.
>>
>>As a test overnight I pitted it against Goliath 1.5 - with a twist.  I used the
>>'Nunn Match' feature to force Shredder 6 to play my favourite opening gambits.
>>This isn't meant to be an indicator of playing strength, more an experiment to
>>see if Shredder 6 can cope when the heat is on.  Goliath 1.5 makes a good
>>opponent for these matches as it has great tactical skills even though it's
>>positional understanding is not quite up to that of the top engines.
>
>I do not believe that goliath has great tactical skills.

I believe. At least in finding tactical combinations in my testsuites it's equal
or faster than Gambit Tiger or Fritz. But of course it loses most games, because
of missing positional/endgame ability...

Jouni



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