Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 14:10:57 12/20/04
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On December 20, 2004 at 16:32:24, Jouni Uski wrote: >Shredder 8 reaches quite stunning averaga search dept. E.g. with only 15 >second/move average with Pentium 2400 and 128MB hash it averages 15,2 ply! For >comparison Fritz Bilbao and Gandalf 6 reach both same 12,7 ply. No wonder >Shredder beats them 13 - 7 and 14 - 6. Of course 2,5 ply is a lot difference! >Is there any amateur or pro engine, which can equal Shredder in depth - Junior's >half plys can be forgotten. > SOS 4 does a very deep search too. In some positions it is competitive even with Shredder. (At number of plies not judgement ability). But i don't really believe that this is its(Shredder) secret. Thorsten suggests that the secret maybe the high positive scores but again i can't find a reason behind that. So what, if Shredder evaluates high the positions? What does this has to do with playing strength? I see this only as a feature of Shredder and not as an advantage. Perhaps i am wrong..... But why Shredder should has to have a big secret? It is just the strongest program the last years and maybe this is not due to a big secret, but just be slightly better from the competition in many areas. Slighly better pruning/evaluation/play at closed positions/endgame, ...etc. It doesn't have to be an area that has a secret.......This doesn't mean of course it hasn't one:-)
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