Author: stuart taylor
Date: 18:11:15 12/15/02
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On December 15, 2002 at 10:16:08, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 But it sees more of what leads to beneficial tactics!? (positionally) S.Taylor
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