Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 07:16:08 12/15/02
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On December 14, 2002 at 17:38:57, stuart taylor wrote: >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? No, you misinterpreted my comment. Shredder searches as deep as other programs. It just seems to miss a lot of shots and need *more* depth than other programs for them. My point was that is you already search very deep being a little behind on tactics is not that bad. -- GCP
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