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Subject: Re: Shredder 7 === Review by Stephen Ham [ChessCafe.com]

Author: Stephen Ham

Date: 07:57:50 02/26/03

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Dear Jose,

Thanks for noticing. I'm not the computer chess expert that you folks are, so I
wrote it through the eyes of an average person.

There were a couple small errors that I wish I had caught. My review was
completed in mid-January, well in advance of the February rating list. So I made
a couple of quick revisions to my review when the latest list came out, but now
see that I missed a spot. I also found a typo where I wrote "speach" rather than
"speed." I hope that didn't ruin the review for you.

As a non-expert regarding chess computers, please allow me to ask a question
that's probably very stupid. It's clear that I found Shredder 7 to be a very
strong chess engine, in fact, one of the strongest to date. Yet I also found
that its ability to evaluate positions was not equally good. In fact, I think
Fritz 6a and Fritz 7 have more accurate evaluation functions. Is there not a
direct coorelation between a chess engine's ability to pick the right move and
its ability to corectly evaluate the position?

Thanks in advance.

Stephen



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