Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 15:58:17 04/06/04
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On April 06, 2004 at 18:40:38, margolies,marc wrote: >Hi Sune, >What you say is certainly true. But I am afraid you are posing a different >argument than the first time. Yes I have many arguments :) >Originally you said no one wants to be beaten by shredder 20 times in a row. >Now it is the features are too expensive. Why spend a lot of money to get a really strong program and then weaken it? I mean it's cool it has that feature, but is it hardly a selling argument when you can get natively weak engines for free. >Here's the facts-- shredder download costs 30 dollars usa, it includes the >'oracle' which is 6-piece savy, and a great interface-- it IS usable by a >beginner and 'classic' shredder costs the same as cm9k. the s8 engine in the >chessbase distribution is stronger, I am told--but you a get good uci engine in >the new package and a sandro necci opening book. there's no chess playing server >client however. >best regards-marc Ok, but you know exactly what you are doing and you are aware of the alternatives. Buying Shredder to a 7 year old would just be completely overkill IMO. Of course if you are a serious player and trying to out-analyze your opponent, then the best will not be good enough. -S.
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