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Subject: Re: New Shredder 7 is Awesome!!

Author: Paolo Casaschi

Date: 06:45:53 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.

I agree.
But, if you were chessbase, would you publish those data or would you use
them and keep them for yourself ?

>
>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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