Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:09:53 07/31/04
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On July 30, 2004 at 17:53:42, Steve Glanzfeld wrote:
>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! :)
It's his opinion, but he could be wrong. Anyhow, it would hardly constitue a
gift since the engine with the GUI goes for $30.
>> 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).
If Shredder Classic is 100 SSDF points less than Shredder 8, that would still
place it in the top 15, which is still stronger than any of the freeware
engines.
Albert
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