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Subject: Re: New Shredder 7 is Awesome!!

Author: Christopher A. Morgan

Date: 04:12:28 12/29/02

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A statistic that Playchess could generate, that wouldn’t be completely
meaningless would be results by engines of all games played. Seems that wouldn’t
be too difficult as they already show what engine you are playing with.

Regards,

Chris



On December 29, 2002 at 07:00:37, Christopher A. Morgan wrote:

>
>Rick,
>
>In my limited engine-engine testing S7 has an edge over F8.  The testing so far
>is three 24 game blitz matches, 5'+5" and 10'+5", with and without tablebases,
>each using its own book (results posted below).
>
>I’m now into game 5 of a 24 game engine-engine match using classical tournament
>time controls, 120'/40+60'/20+30+10".  The time increment of +10" for the third
>time control was added just to make sure that after nearly seven hours of
>playing a game one engine didn’t run out of time at the end of the game.
>Results so far 2-2, with each engine winning one game, and two draws.
>
>I know all the criticisms of the results of engine engine matches but I have
>found that my engine matches and engine tournament results over the last several
>years’ time track the SSDF list so they are not meaningless IMHO.
>
>The problem of playing on the Playchess server is that you have no idea what
>processor(s) your opponents are playing with which makes the results
>meaningless.  For instance some “deep” versions could be playing with two, four,
>eight processor machines.  Shredder 7 is deep without the name and your opponent
>could be playing with a multi-processor machine on S7.  I think it would be
>technically possible for the server to also indicate processor(s)/RAM/hash info
>if a user allowed access to a user’s computer.  I would like to see that.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris
>
>
>On December 29, 2002 at 04:02:44, Rick Terry wrote:
>
>>I think this is a very strong program with lots of Chess Knowledge, it appears
>>to do well on chessbase server, I expect it to top the SSDF list how many agree?



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