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Subject: Re: Amazing result for shredder 7 UCI

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 13:27:42 05/27/03

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On May 27, 2003 at 03:03:57, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 26, 2003 at 19:51:29, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On May 26, 2003 at 19:20:09, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>On May 26, 2003 at 17:04:49, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 26, 2003 at 16:06:40, Joachim Rang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Uri you missed the point. Amazing is, that Shredder 7.0 Uci leads the 450 Mhz
>>>>>clas with 49 (!) points. That's pretty much isn't it? Of course there are not
>>>>>very many games played so far.
>>>>>
>>>>>regards
>>>>>Joachim
>>>>
>>>>Junior7 earned less than 60 elo from the A1200 so if we assume that shredderUCI
>>>>earn the same then it is hardly number 1 in A1200
>>>>
>>>>I agree that the difference is more than 60 elo in most of the cases but still
>>>>it is nothing to consider as amazing.
>>>>
>>>>I think that comparing with Fritz7 and deep fritz7 may be misleading because it
>>>>is possible that they were lucky with 1200 mhz and unlucky with 450 mhz.
>>>>
>>>>Based on this result I expect shredder7UCI to be slightly better than
>>>>shredder7(chessbase)
>>>>
>>>>Nothing amazing when we consider the fact that the book of shredder7 chessbase
>>>>includes inferior lines.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>I think Joachim is right, and you are missing the point. I care very little
>>>about whether it is the UCI version or the Chessbase version. The fact is that
>>>it is performing a good 50 points stronger (for the moment) than the next best
>>>on the same hardware. That's very impressive. It is doing far better than its
>>>predecessor, a great program in its own right, whereas Fritz 8 only managed 1
>>>elo point more in performance. You are entitled to your opinion, but I think
>>>that is a remarkable software improvement when improvements seem to be getting
>>>harder and harder at the top.
>>>
>>>                                           Albert
>>
>>I agree that there is a remarkable software improvement.
>>I only did not find it amazing.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Here is some data about the improvement from 450 mhz to 1200 mhz based on the
>results if I did not do a calculation error
>
>Tiger15        58
>Deep Fritz7   107
>GambitTiger2   71
>Junior7        57
>Fritz7        110
>chesstiger14   87
>shredder5.32   55
>Hiarcs8        95
>Rebel Century 106
>Gandalf5      104
>Gandalf4.32h  132
>Crafty18.12   134
>
>
>You can see that Fritz simply have problems with the 450 mhz relative to most of
>the programs.
>
>The only competition for Shredder in 1200 mhz is Fritz and we can expect
>shredder to lead with big gap in 450 mhz when this program is out of
>competition.
>
>Uri


This is an intersting statistic. One gets invited to speculate about the
reasons. Unfortunately I have no clue :-(



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