Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:23:59 05/18/03
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On May 18, 2003 at 02:15:41, Ernst Walet wrote: >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. The results cannot tell me this information. Not enough games and I also do not know if other programmers did unsound things. There are a lot of possible theories. Maybe all the programmers except the programmer of chessmaster did unsound things and this is the reason for the success of the king. I do not say that it is the case but only that even in case that we get significant results(it is not going to happen because the tournament has not enough games) we cannot compare between new shredder and programs like old Fritz8 that does not play there. Uri
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