Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:22:14 08/11/04
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On August 10, 2004 at 02:27:24, Stephen A. Boak wrote:
>On August 09, 2004 at 18:38:03, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>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
>
>:) lol
:-)))) Well, let's see. My first rating was 1580. My second rating a year later
was 1810. If I had followed that same rate from the beginning, then in 4 years
I'd have been of strong grandmaster strength, and in 5 years I'd have been the
world's best player. Damn, I must have been studying the wrong things.... :-P
Albert
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