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Subject: Re: Hydra report from playchess, a comeback never seen before

Author: Bigler David

Date: 06:59:34 09/01/04

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On September 01, 2004 at 06:52:55, David H. McClain wrote:

>On September 01, 2004 at 04:39:55, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>On September 01, 2004 at 01:11:42, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>>
>>>What do you mean with never seen before?
>>>I have seen that before and others as well.
>>>Shredder has lost already games although it evaluated own position about +6.
>>>
>>>Michael
>>
>>Oops, sorry, I thought the best pc-engine of the world never made a such
>>misevaluation ...
>
>Vincent,
>
>This does happen quite often with Shredder.  I am using v 7.04, and while I have
>not witnessed losing with a + 6 evaluation, I have drawn more than a few games
>where the evaluation was as high a +3.08.
>
>This was obvious to me as an amatuer player observing the game.  The Shredder
>evaluation is long known (at least to me) to be overly optimistic.

Or pessimism... its just less flat.

>
>DHM



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