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Subject: Re: Shredder 7.04, is it stronger than Sh7?

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 09:37:11 06/15/03

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On June 15, 2003 at 07:21:55, zeidoun wrote:

>Hi Helmut,
>I think that Shredder 7.04 is also stronger than Shredder 7. I'm actually
>running a tournament between the Top 10 engines (not including the King) from
>the positions of the Kasparov-Deep Junior match (game1 and 3). Shredder 7.04 is
>by far the best engine.
>It's First with Fritz 8 and Deep Junior 7!! which games are by far the best and
>the most attractive. Sh7.04 wins against DJ7 by just 1 game up. I then run
>another engine match of 24 games between these two engines. Imagine the result:
>19.5 vs 4.5 for:    SHREDDER 7.04.
>
>Just a suggestion for any of the chess programmers, it's inteersting and
>important to test the last engine against the other top engines, but it's also
>interesting to test it against his "brothers" and also weaker engines because
>the style of play of these engines could be hard for the last engine. This point
>must be certainly important, because i've rarely seen someone testing the last
>supposed top best engine against his older versions (or at least if so, we are
>happy to see it win in a short number of games, we satisfy our selfes by seeing
>it winning with 55.5/4.5 or 6/4).

In a German computerchess chat Stefan Meyer-Kahlen pointed out, that he tests
against older brothers, too (at several time controls) ...

Helmut



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