Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 13:24:17 09/02/03
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On September 02, 2003 at 14:29:37, stuart taylor wrote:
>On September 02, 2003 at 05:30:42, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On September 01, 2003 at 15:05:21, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Maybe this a stupid question, or, immature perhaps, but the truth is it's
>>>perhaps the most important question in the minds of every one of us here.
>>>Atleast that is the case with me.
>>>As far as I can tell, Shredder 8 should be it, because 7.04 is already quite
>>>convincing, and 7.06 was reported to be even stronger, some months ago.
>>>So Shr.8 ought to include atleast all of that and more, which would make it
>>>unlikely that anything else would exceed it.
>>>Any other likely possibilities (or information)?
>>>S.Taylor
>>
>> For me this is not an important question. I do also not understand
>> why it should be of any importance which would be the strongest
>> program in 5 months? I take and test the programs as they come.
>> And experience show that the difference in playing strenght between
>> the 3-5 top engines has become very small. It also depends on what
>> we are talking about: blitz games, tournament games, long time
>> analysis and so on.
>> Kurt
>
>For me, I mean tournament timings or longer.
>And, if you say it is not an important question to you because the top 3-5 are
>anyway very close, one could also argue that the upgrades of the next year
>aren't always that much difference between them either.
>S.Taylor
Hi Stuart
I fully agree, but testers have no choice than
to always buy the latest programs. Not much people
are interested in reading about older versions.
Kurt
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