Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 20:57:15 12/30/02
Dear Readers, Please try to contain your laughter, but I have an announcement to make. Most of you know that I'm probably the least-knowledgable computer chess poster in the history of this message board. However, as a correspondence chess player and reviewer at ChessCafe.com, I've volunteered to review Shredder 7 for ChessCafe.com. While I know next to nothing about chess programs (and computers, for that matter!), perhaps I have that in common with the average purchaser of such programs. :-) My review will focus primarily upon Shredder 7's playing strength, testing it against various positions from my correspondence career. I also plan to test Shredder 7 on some of the positions from my infamous matches with Fritz 6a and Nimzo 7.32. http://www.correspondencechess.com/campbell/ham/ham.htm As such, I'll focus on the GUI and peripheral stuff to a lesser extent. Therefore I'd appreciate any advice on what you believe is important for this review. Some of you have expressed an interest in purchasing Shredder 7, so please let me know what information from the review would influence your decision, one way or another. A few days ago, somebody asked what Shredder 7's engine size is. Its 86,016 bytes. Would somebody please tell me how that compares to Shredder 6 or Shredder Paderborn? I've already encountered one snafu. While Shredder 7 installed smoothly, I've been unable to copy its opening book to my hard-drive. Yes, I've read the instructions a dozen times. The CD is in my D-drive. I opened Shredder up and did the following: Menu: "Edit" - "Openings Book" - "Copy tree to hard drive". However, while everything in my Openings Book menu was lit up as a clickable option, "Copy tree to hard drive" was not. I've tried different things to try to get it to work, but have failed. What am I doing wrong? Is this a user error, a faulty manual, or is there a bug in the CD? Thanks in advance for your advice and kind assistance. All the best, Stephen
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