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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