Author: zeidoun
Date: 07:01:52 08/05/03
Yes Kurt, the book choice has an important issue in the games result. In my little experience, i've already noticed this and i've submitted many questions and also many responses in this forum. But the fact is that i'm not Kurt Utzinger nor Harald Faber, I'm just Zied Haddad from the chesslovers. As i mailed to u i've developed new settings for shredder 7.04 that fit not only the blitz time controls but also rapid time controls like 25mn games. This superb setting is shredder 7.04_Attack1.2, u will find it in my homepage at: http://www.chesslovers.tk/ u have then to check the english page (the other pages are for the moment no longer up-dated). You enter then into the tournament page u will find the details there. I haven't yet up-dated my page to show you how incredible is the strength of this new setting for shredder in 25mn games but also in blitz games. It won clearly against all the top 10 engines in individual matches (making for example 70% of the points against Fritz 8, where shredder 7.04 with his beginning settings wins only with a games up). But i've tried an overall simultaneous match with the top 25 commercial rated programs (exept the king), and i'm surprised with a poor peformance against some oldies programs (shredder is rated normally more than 150 points of ELO), this poor performance is due to the choice of the opening. In my test, i used 5 modified positions from the Nunn1 TestSet. The position from which all the programs begin to play rises after 5 or 9 moves. All these positions are with equal chances for both parts, none of these positions are played with an anti-computer style (for example we choose to only develop our paws and our pieces in the third line). My purpose was to ovoid the influence of book opening. And all the positions where played with black and white to show the real strength of the engines. I previously posted a question dealing with the learning option that's delivered with shredder or hiarcs, but none has responded to me, i think that's because none has thought about this point of view. Wait for the next upate of my site to check the games and the rating of this new shredder setting. I think that this prooves that not only chessmaster but also shredder could be improved, and i think that this is a good point for these programs, because their conceptors could give us in the next future a more powerful product. <it not the case of fritz that reached out his adult age where the development of newer algorithms will be more and more difficult. I also think that the next development of fritz could be may be the search for new settings.
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