Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 10:37:12 02/16/04
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On February 16, 2004 at 13:11:56, George Tsavdaris wrote: > I don't know what bug you are talking about, there have been several postings about strange not reproducable behaviour where shredder8 makes a strange (=weak) move and not if you later replay the game. > but Shredder 8 makes the most >powerful analysis i have ever seen by a program. a matter of taste if you relate it with Hiarcs9, or ? >It understands ~35% of the >positions MUCH better and much quicker from Chess Tiger 15.0 and from others. Tiger 15 is not anymore state of the art. the program is old. We have to wait for tiger16. >Only Deep Fritz's 8 analysis is comparable with Shredder's 8. i do disagree here. > And as we have >seen until now, no program can stand head to head with Shredder 8. ?? what do you mean ? >So it will be good if all programmers agreed to a rule when a score of >0.00 means a draw and a score of 10.00 a 100% win >and the scores between them, to correspond in a linear way to the probability of >winning. ?? Isn't that subjective. How much is a position worth ? e.g. 2 or 3 connected passed pawns ? How much ? You want to get scores from -9.99 to 9.99 ?? > Anyway some -not so rare- times even these high evaluations of Shredder >8 is wrong. One almost general rule is when the evaluation goes up to +3.2 then >Shredder 8 is right. Of course there are some endgame positions that this rule >is wrong. But in general Shredder 8 is a brilliant piece of software and of >course all the people have to buy it. Of course shredder is a brilliant piece of software. But i do prefer hiarcs9. >and of >course all the people have to buy it. of course. After they bought hiarcs9 they can buy shredder8 :-))
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