Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 04:50:09 05/12/04
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On May 12, 2004 at 07:42:31, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 12, 2004 at 07:18:50, Mike Hood wrote: > >>The way to get maximum playing strength out of Shredder 8 is to use the UCI >>engine in Shredder's Classic GUI with Sandro Necchi's new opening book, the book >>mode set to "Tournament" in the GUI. >> >>But the SSDF will never test Shredder 8 in this configuration, because it's a >>combination of two separately marketed products. The Shredder 8 UCI engine is >>sold by Chessbase, and the GUI is sold at www.shredderchess.de. Hi Uri, > >It is also possible that the best way to get maximum strength of chessmaster is >to use Fritz8.ctg under chessbase It is not the same. I am the book maker for Shredder both for CB and UCI gui. > >If you allow combination of 2 products then you need to allow it for every >engine. > >I am not against it. Again cannot put this on the same level. >I think that every engine should be tested in the way that the programmer likes >and it includes the opening book that he likes and the interface that he choose. So we did. We asked to test the UCI version with Shredder 8 book, but since it is sold in two different packages it was not done. I told the SSDF that the real update to the 7.04 UCI was the 8.0 UCI and that I was not sure Shredder 8 CB would have topped the SSDF list. Looking the result I was not that far away from reality... > >Of course credit for the right people should be given in notes to the list and >the list can have different color for the programs that were tested as >combination of more than one program. It is the same program, only the book has an option for a more restricted selection...how can you call this a combination of two different programs? > >Uri Sandro
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