Author: Graham Banks
Date: 15:38:21 01/05/05
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On January 05, 2005 at 18:29:39, David H. McClain wrote: >I can't be specific with tournaments, but it seems to me that Shredder is also >an excellent "come from behind" program too. I seem to remember a few >tournaments, perhaps yours, where Shredder 8 was not where it was expected early >on, and progressed very strongly to win or be very near the top. Am I imagining >this? DHM Hi David, it's still too early to write Shredder 8 off, but I've found it seems to perform much more strongly at 40 moves in 2 hours as can be seen from Ray's current tournament and Super Tournament III Final (see table below). SUPER TOURNAMENT III FINAL Athlon XP1900+ 128mb hash or closest allowed for each engine 3,4,5 men tablebases Ponder off No learning Engines using own books where able List 512 using general.ctg CM9000 Alliance using CM8000 book (manually converted) CM10th Creep using powerbook with optimised settings 44 rounds at 40 moves in 2 hours repeating Final Standings 31.0 - Shredder 8 28.5 - Deep Junior 8 23.5 - Deep Fritz 8 22.5 - CM10th Creep 22.0 - CM9000 Alliance 22.0 - Pharaon 3.00b 21.5 - Hiarcs 9 20.5 - Ruffian 2.1.0 20.0 - Chess Tiger 15 19.5 - List 512 16.5 - Aristarch 4.50 16.5 - Pro Deo 1.0 Regards, Graham.
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