Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:14:14 03/01/02
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On March 01, 2002 at 16:11:31, Uri Blass wrote: >On March 01, 2002 at 15:02:04, Chessfun wrote: > >> >>Has anyone played a reasonable amount of long time control games with >>the CB version? What if any changes were there between 18.12 and 18.13? >> >>In my ongoing testing of Shredder 6 this Crafty version won +5 -0 =5. >>Shredder 6 also took a heavy loss against SOS CB version. Both these >>engines were using general.ctg. Although I haven't yet had time to check >>the games. > >It seems that Shredder gets good results in tournaments when stefan is >personally involved and Shredder had no problem to win against SOS in paderborn. > >I see it in so many tournaments that I tend to believe that it is because of >better opening preperation and not because of luck(even if shredder is slightly >better than other engines it cannot explain the fact that shredder wins a big >majority of the tournaments when stefan is involved and the ssdf never suggested >that shredder is number 1 except the last list when the difference is very small >and the latest fritz was not tested). > >My impression is that Shredder's opening preperation gives it about 100 elo >advantage relative to the opponents in tournaments when stefan is involved. I agree that it is probably not just coincidence. An excellent engine coupled with excellent preparation and strategy leads to ... Excellent performance. Shredder is stomping the competition flat at Paderborn. Not a single program that Shredder has faced has been a patsy. As always, Shredder shines in competitions such as this.
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