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Subject: Re: Shredder improvements

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:41:31 05/17/03

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On May 17, 2003 at 16:20:52, Ernst Walet wrote:

>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
>
>
>In the CSVN tournament Shredder (7.06) seached 18 ply average in the middlegame.
> This is an improvement over 7.04, which searches about one ply deeper as 7, in
>the same time of course.
>
>Ernst.

It is easy to search more plies by unsound pruning.
I do not say that it is the case but
plies tell me nothing about improvement.

Uri



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