Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:37:37 05/25/03
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On May 25, 2003 at 14:44:42, margolies,marc wrote: >have you ever used Shredder ( or a gilette razor)? > >Shredder is amazing. It is packaged as a 'deep' product for half the cost of >other chessbase 'deep' products. it even comes with it's own optional to use >interface- "classic." >Classic has good tablebase integration for look-up. It also has a special >'triple-brain' feature, which works even on single processor machines. >Each processor, or hyper-thread, can run a different engine! the program >interface then choses the most apropriate move. >It is certainly a valid criticism that on a single processor without >hyperthreading this optional feature can be misused in that it taxes recources >which could be used to deepen a search. >but it can alsbe used well to compare how different personality settings for the >engine might respond to a position and your style of playing for future games. >best regards, >marc > >ps (apparently whoever counted your brain cells for you had some effect, because >you cite this in your post.) Yes, I've owned Shredder for years. I'm not convinced that more "brains" running simultaneously makes it play stronger on a single CPU like mine. Nor am I convinced that 4 blades makes for a better razor than 3 (or 3 than 2...). And one must wonder how high the numbers will get before these trends stop. :-)
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