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Subject: Re: shredder7- result

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 14:38:57 12/14/02

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On December 09, 2002 at 10:10:29, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 09, 2002 at 04:01:38, Steve Maughan wrote:
>
>>As a result Shredder has always been
>>regarded as a positional player and not a tactician
>
>All my observations are based on Shredder 6 and Shredder Paderborn.
>
>Shredder is not bad in tactics. But it is slower than
>other professional engines.
>
>Whether this causes it to lose games by tactical shots is another
>matter. When you play positionally well it's not very likely that
>there is a 15 ply tactical shot if there is none at 14 ply.
>
>--
>GCP

Might this mean that when it DOES reach 15-ply, it will see more combinations
than another program that reaches the same ply count? (Because it is also
positionally guided to find more things, for example a winning K-side attack)
S.Taylor



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