Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:07:59 05/03/03
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On May 03, 2003 at 13:44:27, Jim Bond wrote: >On May 03, 2003 at 10:32:08, George Wilson wrote: > >>Hi >> >> After playing Shredder 7.04 against Several Strong programs on two separate >>computers I am very "Impressed" . I wonder though what distinguishes this >>program from the other top programs, what gives it the edge in playing strength? >> I think it is shredders fantastic endgame prowness. All six of the games it won >>against century 4 was in the endgame, however rebel seemed to play even with it >>tactically in all the middlegames > >This could be partly due Shredder's ability to probe ending game table base. I >tend to find that, in its analysis window, the tb numbers are much bigger than >other engines. I disagree Bigger is not better. I did not check your theory but if shredder probes ending tablebases more than other programs then it suggests that shredder has not knowledge that it can trust without tablebases. A program with knowledge is not going to probe tablebases in a lot of tablebases positions because calculating the winner by knowledge is faster. Uri
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