Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 06:16:14 12/19/04
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On December 18, 2004 at 17:13:36, Derek Paquette wrote: >By reputation alone, I can say that > >Hiarcs 9 >Deep Fritz 8 >Junior series > >are all great programs vs humans, > >I can also say that by reputation alone, > >Shredder 8 is not as good vs humans as it is vs computers, > >So I have to ask the question, at what point will there be no distinctive >difference between the two? If Shredder 9 comes onto the market and stomps >other programs like both its predecessors, why would it not stomp humans just >the same? Its obviously outmanouvering other programs, what is so different >about its style that is almost "transparent" to humans? Or is this all >'reputation' and not actual fact? It just seems weird to me that a program can >defeat another program that can crush a human, yet cannot do well vs humans > >anyway, >Shredder 9 will surely be stronger than shredder 8, so what do people expect of >shredder 9 in the area of fighting humans? > >Peter Skinner especially feels that shredder is 'weaker' than other programs vs >humans, i'd be interested as to what he has to say, and others aswell > >-Derek paquette I disagree. From which data do you conclude that Shredder is weak against humans? As far as I know Shredder never played a 2700-heavyweight, so it was never in the position to show its superiority. Based on which data do you build up your mind? regards Joachim
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