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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 vs Junior 9 - auto232

Author: Richard Harrison

Date: 12:02:58 01/02/05

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On January 02, 2005 at 14:39:19, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 02, 2005 at 09:51:53, Richard Harrison wrote:
>
>>On January 02, 2005 at 07:33:04, Thomas Logan wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Is the Shredder 8 program being used the UCI version (w/ Shredders opening
>>>>>book)?  I asked because I have found a very noticeable difference in strength
>>>>>between S8 in the chessbase GUI and S8 using the classical GUI at 40/2.
>>>>>
>>>>>Rich
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>It's the Fritz interface one.
>>>>Is the classic version significantly stronger?
>>>
>>>At 40/2 Shredder 8uci with classic gui and shredder8a.bkt overwhelmed Junior 9
>>>
>>>in my autoplay games
>>>
>>>Tom
>>
>>Just as a quick example, I played S8-Chessbase and S8-Classic against S7.04
>>
>>[Identical machines - moves manually input - 40/2]
>>
>>First to achieve 10 wins.  Here are the results:
>>
>>Shredder 8 (ChessBase)vs. Shredder 7.04
>>
>>S8-CB	 	10 (3 wins)
>>S7.04	 	17 (10 wins)
>>
>>Shredder 8 (Classic GUI) vs. Shredder 7.04
>>
>>S8-Classic	22 (10 wins)
>>S7.04	 	16 (4 wins)
>>
>>It's hard for me to believe that only the opening book made such a dramatic
>>difference.
>>
>>Rich
>
>This difference is not a big difference.
>
>Imagine that you add a killer line against every line of Shredder7.04 in the
>opening book of S8-classic.
>
>The result can be 38-0 and not 22-16 for S8-classic.
>
>Uri

Hi Uri,

 Thanks for your comments and of course, I cannot disagree.

 The S8-Classic simply destroys opponents with much more conviction than
S8-Chessbase.  For example, S8-CB struggled against Chessmaster 9000 which is a
strong program @ 40/2.  S8-Classic destroyed Chessmaster with ease.

  When I have time, I'll have to setup positions to compare both Shredders.  The
opening book makes a difference but I still feel Shredder playing in its native
GUI (Classical) plays a better overall game.

Rich



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