Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:20:12 05/12/04
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On May 12, 2004 at 07:50:09, Sandro Necchi wrote: >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? It is clearly a combination of 2 different products. The fact that the programs of the opening book in these products are almost the same does not mean that they are not different. Uri
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