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Subject: Re: some questions about shredder 704

Author: William Penn

Date: 00:34:10 10/17/03

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On October 16, 2003 at 18:36:56, Bernardo Wesler wrote:

>which are the differences in strength between sh704 and sh704 uci?
>which are their latest respectives dates?
>Thx

I asked something similar here awhile back and got no response. It would be nice
to know.

my Shredder704.eng is dated 3/4/2003
my Engine704.exe (Shredder 7.04 UCI) is dated 3/5/2003

I suspect those are the latest versions, and there will probably be no more.
Scuttlebutt is that they're releasing a Shredder 8 in December 2003, if I recall
correctly(?). It would be nice if they would fix the bugs in Shredder 7 first,
but I suppose that's too much to hope.

Actually they did, with the March 2003 update, which works fine on my Windows XP
Home computer. However that update is no longer available, apparently, and the
Oct 2003 update is too buggy to use. Infinite Analysis mode stops spontaneously
at random times, sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes an hour or more. So I
had to revert to the prior March 2003 update. Unfortunately recent purchasers of
Shredder 7, or those who failed to save a copy of the March 2003 update, will no
longer be able to get a non-buggy update for Shredder 7. They're going after the
bucks, I guess, but I wonder how many will users continue to support such a poor
customer service?
WP



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