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Subject: Re: Is position learning the key in shredder 7.04

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 10:49:42 05/29/03

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On May 29, 2003 at 10:36:33, Stephen Ham wrote:

>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.

Stephen, How can it be that the evaluation is less good than its actual playing?
Perhaps because its evaluation is only done much slower?
S.Taylor



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