Author: Andrew Walker
Date: 19:23:56 11/04/04
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On November 04, 2004 at 14:23:09, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On November 04, 2004 at 13:41:03, Sandro Necchi wrote: > >Hi, > >>I was not complaining, but only making things more clear. > >Yes, why not so we have a nice disucss and the others can read it too. > >>I am making huge pressure on SMK to make higher improvements...unfortunately I >>am never enough satisfied... > >That is professional thinking of course! > >>This is true, but an improvemnt of less than 50 points is not easy to see... > >Yes, for me only with a lot of games :-( > >>Yes, I think Shredder is one of the most important programs of CB. > >Shredder is the most important program we have today. >Simple: Shredder is the number one! > >>I do not like to speak about other chess programs to avoid missunderstandings, >>but I have a lot of respect of the Gandalf team. >>I believe the program is clearly stronger, so the customers should be happy with >>it. >>I have not seen it yet, so mine is just an impression based on what I am >>expecting. > >Here you must understand my position! > >The positions I have in the latest five-six years from the work I do: > >- Group building for make more! >- Animation for get more! >- Compatibility for get more! >- Support for get more! > >For get more: >If I try this I have the result to have more in the future for my own interest. >So you can see that I am thinking on myself with the work I made too. > >I wrote Gandalf and Shredder: >Booth programs are important: > >- Shredder supported a standard protocol (UCI), is the strongest program we >have, good endgame, nice openings, good positional computer chess. > >- Gandalf supported a standard protocol (UCI and WB), have the most interesting >middelgame, played the most shortest games vs. other top programs and we have >fire on the board. > >And now Sandro: >A user asked ... what is a good combination for my fast PC to analyze games. >The right answer is Shredder in combination with Gandalf and all the strong >amateurs we have because each amateur have a selection it's very good. Example >Yace in endgame. > >Booth programs are interesting for users because users can used booth program >under all available GUIs. For me is absolutely clear, my commercial favorits >from the "older" available commercial engines. Like Hiarcs too but the program >is for me not interesting because the engine support is bad. > What do you mean by this? The last few releases have been about 1 year apart, and according to the author a new one is very possible by the end of the year. Andrew
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