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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 - Bxh7 2:01

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 09:12:44 05/31/04

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On May 31, 2004 at 10:31:49, Joseph Merolle wrote:

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>Mike how do you explain that my cpu in a game time setting of 40 in 2 finds the
>right move in 48sec flat with clearing hash and loading from scrach, however in
>infinent analisis it takes my cpu 3 minutes? Go figure. I guess I wont be doing
>serches in infinent any longer!

I can't explain, but many engines play better moves in real game time settings
as opposed to infinite time settings.  Crafty is like that.

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>P.S. from the demo version of shredder 8 classic can we exstract the opening
>that we need for Pocket Fritz 2. This would save me the money.
> If so can you give me the instructions again step by step how to exstract and
>rename file so I can load. However please check if the file is to big last time
>it was. Thanks!
>Regards Jospeh

Thaht is very simple.  The Shredder Classic has small book and they have added a
huge book (about 80MB), i extracted huge book to PF2 and it is only about 5MB in
size.  The samll size puzzles me but it is definitely much bigger than PF2
standard book.

This download is 19.5MB and it only works if you have registered Shredder
Classic from this website.

http://www.shredderchess.com/buynow.html

http://www.shredderchess.com/Setup/ShredderBook.exe

Once you you registered Shredder Classic, download ShredderBook.exe and then
double click to to install.  Start Shredder Classic, go to EXTRAS>OPENING
BOOK>LOAD OPENING BOOK and select the new book "Shredder8A.bkt" that you
downloaded and installed.

On the menu, go to EXTRAS>OPENING BOOK>EXPORT OPENING BOOK , it will respond
back with a few seconds , "Pocket Fritz book exported!",  Click "ok".

In your Shredder Classid folder, you now see a file named "Shredder8a.bkt.pbk"
about 5MB in size.

This the book that will work with PF2.  First , rename the current book,
"book.pbk". for PF2 to something else, I used "pocketfritz2_book_original.pbk".
Now rename the file "Shredder8a.bkt.pbk" to "book.pbk" and copy this file to the
folder where you have PF2 installed on your PPC.  Also, for those that are
interested, the PF1 book will also work with PF2 and also any of the earlier
Shredder books that came with Shredder 6 and 7 that end in *.bkt can also be
converted to PF2 format.

In addition, Shredder Classic allows you to build a book by importing PGN games
so you build your own book in Shredder Classis and export to PF2 format.

I know of no ther PPC program that allows you customize your own book.  This is
a very nice feature of PF2.  But of course,you need the Shredder Classic
interface.  In my case, I purchased Shredder Classic without even knowing about
the bigger book that would become available so this was a very nice bonus for
me.

My main reason for buying Shredder Classic was to show Stefan my support and to
encourage him with his Shredder development.  Besides, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, I
try to support most of the top professional chess authors by buying their
programs -  Amir Ban, Shay Bushinsky, Mathias Feist, Johan de Koning, Richard
Lang, Gian-Carlo Pascutto, Christophe Théron , Ed Schröder, Mark Uniacke, and
Perola Valfridsson to name a few of the programmers that I enjoy supporting by
buying their products.  At one point in time, Mark and I worked for the same
company, Nortel Networks, but we had no business contact with each other - I
knew he was fellow employee, I doubt that he know who I was.  I believed he
worked in the UK, while I was in the US.

One feature of Shredder's GUI that is  very interesting is the triple brain
function.  When I have a chance, I will like to take some time and explore that
function using Crafty and Shedder.  To my knowledge, no other GUI has that
function.

I have traded e-mails with Stefan and he is extremely responsive.

Best,

Michael



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>On May 31, 2004 at 07:35:00, Mike Byrne wrote:
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>>On May 31, 2004 at 07:03:38, Mike Byrne wrote:
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>>>On May 31, 2004 at 00:55:28, Joseph Merolle wrote:
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>>>>Mike what is your cpu speed and ram? 2.03 min is really fast on my lap top 3.06
>>>>ghz 256 ram it finds in about 3 min.
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>>>I have a dual 1.7 Ghz with 512M ram,  For the test below , Shredder was set to 2
>>>threads with about 48M hash.  The difference is probably the dual CPU machine.
>>>It somtimes can be more than twice as fast and for other positions can be less
>>>than twice as fast.  I will run it with one thread and see what the result is.
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>>>>On May 31, 2004 at 00:04:01, Mike Byrne wrote:
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>>>>>[d]Kasparov,G - Comp Deep Blue, Philadelphia m 1996
>>>>>2rr2k1/pp1qnppp/2n1p3/3p4/1bPP3P/1P2RNP1/PB3P2/1BRQ2K1 w - - 0 1
>>>>>
>>>>>Analysis by Shredder 8:
>>>>>
>>>>>20.Ng5 Ng6 21.Qh5 Bc5 22.dxc5
>>>>>  ±  (1.13)   Depth: 1/10   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bxa3 21.Bxa3 dxc4
>>>>>  ±  (0.85)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bxa3 21.Bxa3 dxc4
>>>>>  ±  (0.85)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bxa3 21.Bxa3 dxc4
>>>>>  ±  (0.85)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bxa3 21.Bxa3 dxc4
>>>>>  ±  (0.85)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bxa3 21.Bxa3 dxc4
>>>>>  ±  (0.85)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bxa3 21.Bxa3 dxc4
>>>>>  ±  (0.85)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bxa3 21.Bxa3 dxc4
>>>>>  ±  (0.85)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bxa3 21.Bxa3 dxc4
>>>>>  ±  (0.85)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bxa3 21.Bxa3 dxc4
>>>>>  ±  (0.85)   Depth: 5/16   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bd6 21.Ng5 Nf5 22.Bxf5 exf5
>>>>>  ±  (0.94)   Depth: 5/18   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bd6 21.Ng5 h6 22.Bh7+ Kf8 23.Nf3
>>>>>  ±  (0.94)   Depth: 6/14   00:00:00
>>>>>20.a3 Bd6 21.Ng5 h6 22.Nf3 Re8 23.Qc2
>>>>>  ±  (0.75)   Depth: 7/20   00:00:00  53kN
>>>>>20.a3 Bd6 21.Qd2 dxc4 22.bxc4 Bc7 23.h5 Nf5 24.Bxf5 exf5
>>>>>  ±  (0.73)   Depth: 8/20   00:00:00  150kN
>>>>>20.a3 Bd6 21.Qd2 Bc7 22.Qe2 dxc4 23.bxc4 Bb6 24.Ng5 Nxd4 25.Bxh7+ Kf8
>>>>>  ±  (0.71)   Depth: 9/22   00:00:01  265kN
>>>>>20.a3 Bd6 21.Qd2 Bc7 22.Re2 dxc4 23.bxc4 Bb6 24.d5 exd5 25.Qg5
>>>>>  ±  (0.71)   Depth: 10/25   00:00:02  632kN
>>>>>20.a3 Bd6 21.Qd3 g6 22.Qc3 Nf5 23.Bxf5 exf5 24.Qb4
>>>>>  ²  (0.67)   Depth: 11/30   00:00:04  1439kN
>>>>>20.a3 Ba5 21.Ng5 h6 22.Nf3 dxc4 23.bxc4 Bb6 24.c5 Ba5 25.Qb3 Qc7 26.Be4
>>>>>  ²  (0.56)   Depth: 12/30   00:00:10  3631kN
>>>>>20.a3 Ba5 21.g4 Ng6 22.h5 Nf4 23.Qc2 g6 24.Qf5 exf5 25.Re8+ Rxe8
>>>>>  ²  (0.54)   Depth: 13/34   00:00:24  8611kN
>>>>>20.a3 Ba5 21.Ng5 h6 22.Nf3 dxc4 23.bxc4 Bb6 24.c5 Ba5 25.Qb3 Nd5 26.Re2 Qc7
>>>>>27.Qd3
>>>>>  ²  (0.57)   Depth: 14/31   00:00:47  16059kN
>>>>>20.a3 Ba5 21.Ng5 h6 22.Nf3 dxc4 23.bxc4 Bb6 24.c5 Ba5 25.Qb3 Nd5 26.Re2 Qc7
>>>>>27.Bd3
>>>>>  ²  (0.64)   Depth: 15/40   00:01:25  28708kN
>>>>>20.Bxh7+ Kxh7 21.Ng5+ Kg8 22.Qh5 Qe8 23.Qh7+ Kf8 24.Qh8+ Ng8 25.Nxe6+ Qxe6
>>>>>26.Rxe6 Nxd4 27.Bxd4 dxc4
>>>>>  ²  (0.65)   Depth: 15/45   00:02:01  42241kN
>>>>>20.Bxh7+ Kxh7 21.Ng5+ Kg8 22.Qh5 Qe8 23.Qh7+ Kf8 24.Qh8+ Ng8 25.Nxe6+ Qxe6
>>>>>26.Rxe6 Nxd4 27.Bxd4 dxc4 28.bxc4
>>>>>  ±  (1.00)   Depth: 15/45   00:02:32  53632kN
>>>>>20.Bxh7+ Kxh7 21.Ng5+ Kg8 22.Qh5 Qe8 23.Qh7+ Kf8 24.Qh8+ Ng8 25.Nxe6+ fxe6
>>>>>26.Rf3+ Qf7 27.Rxf7+ Kxf7 28.Qh5+ Kf8 29.a3 Bd6 30.Qg4 Re8 31.cxd5 Nf6 32.dxe6
>>>>>Nxg4 33.Rc5
>>>>>  ±  (1.15)   Depth: 15/48   00:03:38  78706kN
>>>>>
>>>>>(Byrne, MyTown 31.05.2004)
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>>When I re-run test with cleared hash and position learning off. I get different
>>solution times depending on the hash but all of them seem to get faster.  I have
>>noticed this before with Shredder , you only seem to get one crack at running a
>>position before it learns the best move even with position learning off.  All of
>>my subsqequent re-run of the above positions are faster than above - varing the
>>hash size does vary the solution time.



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