Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 16:27:37 06/09/04
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On June 09, 2004 at 19:23:11, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 09, 2004 at 19:07:39, Derek Paquette wrote: > >>On June 09, 2004 at 18:49:40, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>Taking on a 3400+ AMD 64 with 2 GB RAM and Fritz 8 >>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1703 >> >>this is very annoying for someone who is a chess enthusiast like myself. >> >>why would the company that is marketting this laptop, RISK using a program that >>is 40 elo LOWER? >>i just dont' get it, >>i think it comes down to plain old ignorance of chess programs >>why NOT use shredder 8? >>this is very frusterating, because we never get to see shredder 8 in action vs >>grandmasters at tournament time controls. > >Probably, they have a good reason. >For instance, they might take 7.04 and analyze every game she has every played >at very slow time control. Now, they have a database and expected response for >most of the moves she is likely to make. > >Perhaps the analysis started long ago. They know for sure exactly how it would >work with 7.04 > >Bleeding edge is not always the best thing, if you want a reliable outcome. >For the same reason, we won't always see the fastest possible hardware. It >could be that the fastest stuff has not been tested. It would be a mistake to >try an untested system. that is very true, if shredder 8 was released last week, HOWEVER, shredder 8 has been released long enough for the following to happen, SSDF has had enough time to test it ICC is full of shredder 8 (and it turning humans into mince meat) that is enough to say that the program is well tested, and that it would kick the crap out of a human, because its certainly beating around fritz 8.
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