Author: Mike Hood
Date: 17:10:21 01/05/02
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On January 05, 2002 at 15:17:33, James T. Walker wrote: >On January 05, 2002 at 14:22:13, Mike Hood wrote: > >>On January 05, 2002 at 11:14:44, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>Is there a program available that will tell me the stats of a tablebase and give >>>me the positions if requested? I mean I would like to check a tablebase to find >>>out what is the longest number of moves to mate and then be given all positions >>>which lead to mate in that number of moves. >>>Any help appreciated. >>>Jim >> >>Shredder 6 can do this. It's important that you install the "classic" version, >>because the extended tablebase functions are not available under the standard >>Chessbase GUI. > >Thanks for the info. I had not planned on buying Shredder 6 but this may be a >reason to do it. Can you explain about the "classic" version versus the >"standard" version? Are there any other differences? >Jim What I call the "standard version" is basically the Fritz 7 GUI with a different engine. The "classic" version is SMK's own Shredder GUI, which seems to borrow a lot from the Chessbase GUI, but with a few extra features. The most interesting feature is the "Endgame Oracle", which analyses a position from endgame tablebases with wildcards, for instance in KPK "bk h8, wp h2, wk anywhere"... or of course, every piece in the database could be a wildcard. There's an interesting feature that if only one of the pieces in the egtb is a wildcard, the number of moves to mate is displayed on each empty square of the chessboard itself. The only description I've seen of this feature online is in German (sorry) at http://www.chessbase.de/katalog/product.asp?pid=132 The only other unique feature of the Shredder interface is the "Triple Brain". Using this feature two engines analyse a position in parallel, and a third meta-engine decides which of the two engines is "right". Oh, and Shredder 6 supports the UCI protocol.
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