Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 20:33:43 02/29/04
Hi folks, i've been busy tweeking my Shredder 8 to try and find something stronger, and I have, I had a quick 26 game tournament on my computer, blitz 15min opening DB : nunn Shredder 8 (time stamp) 14.5/26 Shredder 8 (default) 11.5/26 Now this is only a small tournament, and there are always skeptics, but nothing can refute my new new chessbase network rating of 2633, on an athlon 1700, there are guys with duals that are equal to mine in rating. I have used the standard out of the box book for shredder 8, this setting is absolutely wonderful, and I'm sure you'll all notice its strength, i have not tested it in 3 minute blitz games or anything extremely fast as I don't think the added time usage will help much in these cases, But for longer blitz and tournament time controls, especially on a dual system, i think its performance will increase exponentially. These settings take the opposite of what Shredder attack1.2dp5 had, where that setting on Shredder 7.04 would have the program pushing the pawns to the end of the board at all costs, i find that didn't work with S8, and so now using these parameters it has a more cohesive attack, The settings I changed are the following Bishop = 101 Pawn = 101 Pawn(endgame) = 101 King Safety = 95 Center Control = 105 Pawn Structure = 102 pawn Structure(endgame) = 102 Passed pawns = 103 Passed pawns(endgame) = 103 Bishop Pair = 102 Bishop Pair (endgame) = 102 Time Usage = 150 If anyone wants an email of the games let me know, and if anyone has any ideas let me know :) derek_m_p@hotmail.com
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