Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 11:41:02 12/29/02
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On December 29, 2002 at 13:53:52, liam hearns wrote: >i think its very informative,no books ,let us see what the engines are like >without there ref. library! as always: i dont know anything. I only TRY to think logical. both programs are commercial. both are delivered with an own opening book. both programmers are interested to win WorldChampionship titels or at least to get a high rating at SSDF in order to sell their programs. therefore they simply dont care about how the engines perform without their books. they try to improve the playing strength of the programs in middle and endgame positions. both programs play openings very weak without opening book: 3...Qe6+?,4.Nb4?. even if Chesstiger would play openings better as shredder overall. who cares? assumed they had played not only 17 but 1700 games with a result +900 =400 -400 in favour of Tiger. this would mean no more than Chesstiger is doing probably better in the positions after 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 Nb4 and 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qe6+. if a chess grandmaster would dare to play one of these positions with black against another grandmaster he probably would have to resign in not more then 20 moves. probably no chessmaster would be interested in how chessengines will perform in this positions. if you believe it or not. both variations are clearly better for white. if both sides would play perfectly then white would score a 100%. it would probably be easy to find another two positions so that shredder has the upper hand.
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