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Subject: Re: Next Shredder 8 Question

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 10:06:01 02/29/04

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On February 29, 2004 at 10:00:18, Chessfun wrote:

>On February 29, 2004 at 03:58:27, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>On February 28, 2004 at 12:25:40, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>On February 28, 2004 at 12:09:19, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 28, 2004 at 11:18:07, William Penn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 28, 2004 at 10:09:31, Gerald Grimsley wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hello I just bought shredder 8.  I am using it under the usual Chessbase
>>>>>>interface, but also want to put the engine under my classical interface.  How do
>>>>>>I do this from the CD?
>>>>>>Thanks in advance
>>>>>>Gerald
>>>>>
>>>>>You don't do it from the CD. The UCI form of the engine (Shredder8.exe) is
>>>>>already on your hard drive, in a UCI subfolder of your Engines folder in the
>>>>>Chessbase GUI. Import/create/activate (forgot the terminology) it from the
>>>>>Classic inteface as usual.
>>>>>WP
>>>>
>>>>Is there a Classic Shredder 8 engine book somewhere?
>>>
>>>No. But Sandro Necchi wrote "I believe that Shredder 8 UCI with Shredder 7.bkt
>>>should perform about 5-10 points better than Shredder 8 CB."
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>>
>>Ciao Sara,
>>
>>I have given the Shredder 8 UCI version book to Stefan for download 2 days ago.
>>It will be made available for download soon.
>>The target is to get a SSDF rating of at least 50 points higher than 7.04 UCI
>>
>>I am working on the WCCC book update, as I have to add some new ideas, so cannot
>>make enough tests to estimate how better is this book compared to both std.
>>Shredder 8 book for CB version and Shredder 7 book UCI, but it is better and I
>>hope more fun too.
>
>That's great news Sandro.
>I assume the wait is so we don't have a repeat of what happened with Hiarcs8,
>where anyone could download the book as having an original CD wasn't a
>requirement.
>
>When you say UCI book do you mean a book that will run in any interface with the
>UCI engine?
>
>Sarah.

I think it will only run in the new Shredder 8 UCI interface which has not been
made available yet, but Stefan is working on this and I do not know the details
yet.

I think in a few days you will know everything...I mean when the new interface
will be ready...

Ciao
Sandro



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