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Subject: Re: shredder 6 vs chessmaster 8000

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 23:12:51 06/03/02

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On June 03, 2002 at 19:00:46, mike west wrote:

>before i bought shredder 6 i read alot about it saying how much more powerful it
>was compared to chessmaster 8000. After i bought it i ran many tests, 12 with
>chessmaster vs shredder in their own gui's by copying moves and chessmaster won
>every game...i then converted the king engine over to shredder's gui using
>malin's method (without the opk number which will make chessmaster move
>instantly without thinking) and ran engine to engine match and chessmaster still
>won all 12 matches. Could it be that chessmaster is using more cpu resourses?  i
>checked that out and chessmaster uses way less..1,288 k compared to shredders
>267,404 k....does anyone else get differnt results?
>i'm testing with a pentium 4 1.4 ghz with 384 megs of ram.
>i have given shredder every advantage including its learning ability and i
>copied alot of chessmasters opening books and saved chessmaster wins over to
>shredders learn from games option....so is shredder really weaker than
>chessmaster?...every review on shredder vs chessmaster on the net that ive read
>says shredder is way better.
>

Have you upgraded the Shredder engine. If you run it in the Fritz gui (default
install) there was a bug that let it play instantly after 31 mars.

Odd Gunnar




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