Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:38:03 08/09/04
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On August 09, 2004 at 17:46:00, stuart taylor wrote: >On August 09, 2004 at 15:33:52, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 09, 2004 at 13:49:55, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>>Well, do people atleast agree with me on the facts, that there has been no >>>improvement as big as Shredder 7.04 for almost 2 years now, and no percievable >>>overtaking of it? >>>S.Taylor >> >> >>I do not agree with this descreption of the facts. >>A lot of programmers did a bigger improvement. >> >>The improvement in thinker in the last 2 years is clearly more impressive for me >>than the improvement in Shredder. >> >>I suspect that a lot of programmers are in their way to overtake Shredder7.04 >>and I will not be surprised if some of them will even give a free program that >>is significantly stronger than shredder7.04. >> >>Uri > >Do you mean improvement in thinking? (or a program named "thinker"?) A program named thinker. > >So you are disagreeing with ONE of my points, that there have been bigger >improvements, but not that something has actually overtaken Shredder 7.04 in 2 >years.(?) > >And you are predicting that by the end of this year there will be a significant >increase in playing level and success from somewhere? >S.Taylor I do not know much about the commercial programs and the improvement that I see is with the free programs. 2-3 years ago a program like resp0.14 or Delfi2.0 could become a champion of new engines in WBEC Today a program at that level is nothing impressive and there are new programs like Naum that are probably more than 200 elo better than resp0.14 or delfi2.0. If this tendency continue in 2 years the first program that people release will be better than shredder8. Uri
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