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Subject: Re: FRC-rankinglist: Shredder 8 final result !

Author: Chessfun

Date: 07:25:14 02/08/04

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On February 08, 2004 at 06:32:35, stuart taylor wrote:

>On February 08, 2004 at 03:10:34, Stefan Pohl wrote:
>
>To me, this is a fascinating subject, and very fundementally important.
>
>But, how great is Shredder 8, according to this FRC list?
>
>Does it mean much that Shredder is in first place?
>
>Why?
>
>Because Hiarcs 9 is known to be only mediocre, and even H9 comes very close, and
>could have been top.

Do you know anything about computer chess?
Do you own any of these engines you make reference to in this post?

>OK, so let's say that Hiarcs is especially strong in FRC, more than in normal
>chess. But the Fritz is 8005! and that has long been known to have been
>considerably weaker than 8008.

Please supply info, re: where you get this reference and what the use of the
word "considerably" means in terms of rating points?

>Therefore, it would make sense to infer from all this, that Shredder is not much
>stronger if at all, than its predescessor (even though against its predescessor
>it got 68%, but it is obvious it would do well against that).

>Actually, talking of offending people in this forum (and CTF), I would wonder if
>posts like this are considered offensive. Just because freedom is given, might
>not mean that the programmers and promoters of the program are so happy about
>implied citiscicms in public.
> But isn't this what the forum is for? Still, I was wondering if for them it's
>"suffer in silence" but that they feel a grudge against posters of posts like
>mine, above.

I don't think posts like this are considered offensive, as they simply make the
poster look like a fool. If I were you I'd stick to CTF where you seem to have
found a home. As here it would seem your thinking isn't quite normal and you're
making too much of an effort to sound intelligent.

Sarah.





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