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Subject: Re: Using Shredder Classic engine in Chessbase GUI

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 09:37:05 05/08/04

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On May 08, 2004 at 09:08:54, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On May 08, 2004 at 08:49:44, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>On May 07, 2004 at 21:40:12, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:
>>
>>>On May 07, 2004 at 08:07:52, Mike Hood wrote:
>>>
>>>>Yesterday I installed the Shredder engine "EngineClassic.exe" in Fritz 8 as a
>>>>UCI engine. I experimented with limiting the playing strength in the engine
>>>>parameters, but even when I turned the strength all the way down to Elo 1000 the
>>>>engine still seemed to be playing at full strength.
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone else tried this? Does the "limit strength" feature work outside of
>>>>the Shredder Classic GUI? And (since I haven't tried it yet) does it even limit
>>>>the strength "realistically" in the Shredder Classic GUI?
>>>
>>>Strange, you do enable limited strength (UCI_LimitStrength) in addition to set
>>>the elo?
>>>Just tried it her an it works (Shredder6=Fritz7).
>>>
>>>Odd Gunnar
>>
>>I clicked on the check box UCI_LImitStrength in the engine parameters, if that's
>>what you mean. In the Shredder Classic GUI there's a slider to set the ELO
>>strength, but it's a dialog box in the Chessbase GUI. It should still work
>>though, shouldn't it?
>
>Yes, marking UCI_LimitStrength and add 1000 in the UCI_elo box is what I did to
>test it and it played like a beginner.
>
>Odd Gunnar

Funny... my personal rating is about 1600, so I thought that limiting Shredder
Classic's strength to 1000 would give me an easy victory, but I was hammered
three games in a row.



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