Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 14:26:42 01/08/04
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On January 08, 2004 at 13:02:48, m.d.hurd wrote: >The following appears on the Chessbase web site. > >The world champion chess program “Shredder 8” for single and multi-processor >systems. You can configure the “engine” – the module that calculates chess move >– and change the program parameters to actually improve its performance in >practical games. After “tuning” your Shredder you can test the engine in >Internet games played automatically on the ChessBase chess server. > >Are they suggesting that Shredder 8 can be improved by the user and if so does >this mean its standard settings are not optimal ? > >Regards > >Mike No all they are saying is that the end user can experiment with the program parameters and if they are lucky, they might find a setting that may in certain situations be stronger than the default! eg at certain time controls or against certain programs under "practical conditions" (which to my mind means ponder off! as this is the commonest practical condition under which most people test. I would imagine that the default setting is the strongest at long time controls; with ponder on; on a modern mid range computer, against a vast majority of computer and human opponents.
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