Author: Ingo Bauer
Date: 07:24:47 08/01/04
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Hi >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? At first: I am not involved in any testing of any Shredder engine. All testing I have done I have done on myself! If a programmer gives a number it is allways better to give a number on the save side. THat is what SMK did with these 100 - 150. You can be sure the Engine is not worse than this and it is no gift at all. I - and I mean "I" - am sure that the engine is much more on the 100 than on the 150 side! >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! :) I bet that with the big Classic-book the Shredder Classic engine in its own GUI will be higher ranked in the SSDF list than any of the tree engines you mentioned! Bye Ingo Bauer
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