Author: Steve Glanzfeld
Date: 14:53:42 07/30/04
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On July 30, 2004 at 17:36:02, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 30, 2004 at 17:31:29, Steve Glanzfeld wrote: > >>No, the Shredder Classic engine is a dumbed down version, -100 to -150 elo >>points compared to Shredder 8 according to SMK. >I think it is better never to trust programmers and to do independent testing. Do you think SMK releases a strong version but tells it's 100 to 150 points worse? What sense would that make... a surprise gift? It would be a nice idea though! :) > > There are much more important, >>stronger, engines which SSDF did not test yet (i.e. Aristarch, List, SOS.4 ...) > >How do you know that they are stronger without testing Shredder classic? I DID test Shredder Classic already, in different ways. It was fairly good, comparable to good freeware (but not as good as top freeware). That test did not include a Necchi book as I'm interested in engines (only), more than in the large books or in the packages including them. The result against Crafty 19.15 in Ingo Bauer's match reported here, is very good but I guess it is not typical in the long run. I could be wrong though (and I'd appreciate it :) because the stronger an engine is I have on my HD the better! :) Steve
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