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Subject: Re: Is Shredder's secret simply search dept ?! (Some figures here)

Author: Uri Zlatnik

Date: 17:15:01 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.
>
>Jouni

I'm no expert but i think Shredder plays well thanks to its great implementation
of chess knowledge. The more chess knowledge, the less kN/s it will do but the
pruning will be faster.







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