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Subject: Re: What is Wrong with Shredder 7.0.4's Position Evaluations?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:26:47 09/12/03

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On September 12, 2003 at 13:06:42, Bob Durrett wrote:

>Ah Ha!  Another example of apples versus oranges!  : )

Again, not at all. You are assuming engine behaviour and comparative
strength is miracolously completely different in playing vs analysis.
This is false.

Running in analysis mode is the same as playing a very very slow game,
as far as the engine is concerned. There's nothing significantly different
about the two internally.

>In my case, I always allow the engine to reach a "reasonable" search depth. On
>the other hand, a person playing against his chess program would never do that.

What is reasonable? Why would a reasonable depth magically make things
different for the sake of this discussion?

>Don't be fooled by SSDF results.  SSDF could care less about the analysis uses
>of the chess programs.  They ONLY measure playing strength in timed
>competitions.

There is a direct and very strong correlation between analysis strength
and SSDF performance.

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GCP



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