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Subject: Re: shredder 8

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 13:25:08 02/27/04

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On February 27, 2004 at 01:58:30, huey p. newton wrote:

>When I use the infinite analysis mode shredder 8 tends to hangs pieces ,
>especially queens . After the first couple of moves the analysis is horrific . I
>'ve complain to Steve Lopez , whose review promted me to buy this program , but
>he dismisses my opions . Has any one else experience this with shredder 8 ?

yes it is a well known "bug". Bug in quatation mark, because it does not affect
the playing strength of Shredder, since the first move is always correct. The
other moves are form the Hashtables and therefore not reliable. This looks
sometimes really ugly, when Shredder gives away its queen in the PV for nothing,
but one get used to it ;-)

The alternative is either to cut the PV at the move where it starts to be
unreliable but then sometomes the PV is only one move (like Fritz for example)
or to update the PV (but this costs Processortime and therfore reduces the
playing strenght). It seem that Stefan Meyer-Kahlen does not like either option.

regards Joachim



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