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Subject: Re: New computer chess book now available from Gambit

Author: Robin Smith

Date: 08:15:27 05/27/04

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On May 26, 2004 at 14:40:17, Will Singleton wrote:

>On May 26, 2004 at 12:34:27, Robin Smith wrote:
>
>>"Modern Chess Analysis"
>>
>>http://www.badbishop.com/gambit/books/modanalysis.html
>
>I read the pdf sample, pretty interesting.  You mention how Shredder has weird
>pv's (I just noticed that myself the other day), and you go on to say that it's
>an artifact of the process of obtaining the pv from hash.  I know most mtd(f)
>programs have to do this, but Shredder's analysis doesn't look like mtd(f).  I
>wonder why it would use that method, and I wonder further why SMK would choose
>to print useless pv's?
>
>Thanks for mentioning the book, I'll probably order it.

Thanks Will. I have no idea if Shredder is mtd(f) or not. As I'm sure you know,
commercial authors are pretty tight lipped about the inner workings of their
programs. Shredder does have the most bizzare pv's I have ever seen, and I have
heard no explanations other than hash table issues to account for this.

Robin



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