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Subject: Re: Now 7.5 : 4.5 for Ruffian 2.0.2 ... look in this great game!

Author: Chessfun

Date: 14:51:11 02/23/04

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On February 23, 2004 at 16:07:56, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On February 23, 2004 at 13:18:08, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>
>>Hi Frank,
>>
>>>[White "Ruffian 2.0.2"]
>>>[Black "Shredder 8.0 (HT)"]
>>>[Result "1-0"]
>>>[ECO "B08"]
>>>[Opening "Pirc"]
>>
>>> 1.d4 g6
>>
>>can you explain me which book you have used for Shredder ? In its own book it
>>will NEVER ever play g6... -> and what does this (HT) behind it's name mean ?
>>When you play here with ponder=on Hypterthreading MUST be disabled else quite
>>curious things can happen, like Gian-Carlo and I have informed you now several
>>times.
>>
>>Greets, Thomas
>
>
>Hi Thomas,
>
>my Shredder 8 opening book (Shredder8.ctg) does list 1...g6 as a potential reply
>to 1.d4 with 5263 lines stemming from it and assigns the !? flag to this move.
>I believe that the principal move here for Shredder is 1...Nf6 most of the time,
>but, hey, it is quite possible that book learning has steered Shredder 8 into
>trying 1...g6, right?

Actually no, Shredder 8.ctg lists 1...g6 as a 0 potential reply "optimized". And
even if you change book weight learning to +125 the possibility is still 0.

But as Frank explained he isn't using Shredder8.ctg.

Sarah.




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