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Subject: Re: Shredder improvements

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 23:15:41 05/17/03

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On May 17, 2003 at 17:41:31, Uri Blass wrote:

>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


Look at the results at CSVN and tell me if Stefan did a sound thing with
Shredder...
Ernst.



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