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Subject: Re: Shredder improvements

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 13:17:17 05/17/03

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On May 17, 2003 at 14:16:23, Peter Stayne wrote:

>Question of curiosity:
>
>Even though Shredder 7.04 is such an extremely strong engine, there's no doubt
>that Stefan is working on improving it for a Shredder 8. I've seen many
>programmers on these forums asking for help with their engines, but can anyone
>speculate as to what areas of the Shredder engine he could be improving to make
>it even stronger? Are we getting any closer to the point where, given the same
>hardware, it's almost impossible to make an engine stronger? Or do we still have
>a long way to go?
>
>Pete

I second the statement from Uri. Stefan Meyer-Kahlen hinmself said recently in a
chat in a german forum, that he thinks there is much potential in improving his
engine with the classical measures: Better pruning, better move ordering, better
extensions, better evaluation. He thinks that he can still stick to these
measures for the next year to make significant improvements.



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