Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 07:36:33 05/29/03
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Dear Gentlemen, I too noted the erratic evaluation behavior in Shredder 7 when I reviewed it for ChessCafe.com. That review goes into more detail and can be found here: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review365.pdf I see the same behavior in Shredder 7.04 too. Nonetheless, I'm truly impressed with Shredder's ability to play chess at a very high level...in spite of its evaluation function, which I find unreliable. In short, Shredder somehow generally finds better moves than any other engine I've seen, but it's assessment of the position is not to be trusted. This superiority over other engines is manifest with longer time controls. For the record, I find version 7.04 to be significantly stronger than 7.0. If I recall correctly, SMK used version 7.06 in the latest Dutch computer tournament. Gosh, I'd sure love to get a copy of that! Do you think 7.06 will subsequently be released as a free upgrade, like 7.04 was? All the best, Stephen
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