Author: jefkaan
Date: 09:32:26 12/18/03
maybe Ruffian 3 in 2005 will play positionally better and crush Shredder; then i'll maybe buy it; it its priced reasonably for a commercial engine, ie lower dan 15 bucks; But it wont be easy; i dont know how Shredder has done it but its hard to combine positional and tactical strength in a program; even the Diep programmer could confirm that i guess (=no joke this time; i presume its depending on hardware and software how you finetune an engine for real chess; results between engines will probably still going to fluctuate a little; but imho Shredder will play better against the top GM's than Fritz or Junior), best regards, jef PS for the rest i'm slightly puzzled why we have both winboard and UCI, although indeed the Arena interface is compatible with both, and is a fine program although not completely bugfree (no problem for freeware ofcourse). What would be interesting in a program as Arena is the ability to play with at separate 'book'engine (old idea) and then automatically switch to another engine as soon as out of book; and maybe also switch to an endgame engine, eg. Crafty with the 8man egtb (in 2008?), and then we can organize internet computerchess/users tournaments where than nobody can claim he/she is (or is not) the programmer like this pathetic ICCGA issue about the List participation (by F.Ruel); similar as on ICC where there are some Shredder 'clones' ie operators. Who cares ? I dont, let programmers do the programming and let operators and td's do the tournament; would save us a lot of hassle.
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