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Subject: Re: Does Shredder7.04 have any weakness?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 09:28:36 04/24/03

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On April 24, 2003 at 11:46:06, Stephen Ham wrote:

>On April 24, 2003 at 09:45:38, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On April 24, 2003 at 09:33:36, Eran wrote:
>>
>>>If yes, what are they?
>>>
>>>Eran
>>
>>    Shredder 7.04 is a fine software, perhaps the strongest chess program
>>    at the moment ... but it's sometimes too optimistic
>>    Kurt
>
>Kurt is correct, per usual. Shredder 7 and Shredder 7.04's evaluation function
>is too optimistic. Nonetheless, Shredder 7.04 is probably the strongest engine
>on the market. I do have a gripe too about its opening book in the ChessBase
>GUI, since it's not nearly restrictive enough. I've manually corrected this on
>my Schredder, so it's very strong (it now plays only MY opening lines that I
>play in Correspondence Chess). Sandro Necchi, the author of Shredder's Book is
>correct that the Shredder Classic GUI restricts its openings to only the
>strongest lines.
>
>I also believe that version 7.04 is clearly stronger than 7. This is especially
>evident as the time-control increases.
>
>As for Shredder's strengths/weaknesses, here's my review, found at
>ChessCafe.com:
>
>http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review365.pdf
>
>All the best,
>
>Stephen

I've just spent a long time reading your review of Shredder 7. Have you noticed
Shredder 7.04 correcting many of those weaknesses of Shredder 7?
 In all your praise for Shredder 7, you had it only very vaguely that it might
be a little stronger than Fritz 7, whereas Fritz 8008 is clearly reported as
being quite a bit stronger than that.
 Does the upgrade of Shredder 7 to 7.04 make all the difference, to overtake
Fritz 8008 as well?
S.Taylor



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