Author: David H. McClain
Date: 07:40:35 01/27/05
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On January 27, 2005 at 09:01:31, Ingo Bauer wrote: >>I would like to know beside the release date - what is the difference between >>shredder 8 and 9 . >> >>I always liked about shredder that the deep version is same price as the single >>cpu version and want to undersand why now the deep version is supposedly is >>twice the price of the single cpu version? Especially when the dual core cpus >>are 1 year or even less ? > >Just have a look at the other dual capable engines. > >>If you give official info about a program release then I guess you should say a >>bit more then : "I can't say how much elo it is improved" . >> >>1) You can estimate >>2) You can speculate >>3) You can give examples > >I could, but I think it is not a good behavior to give numbers which are for >sure not independent. If you want numbers, just wait after the release a couple >of weeks. Then you will get numbers by some other people. The only thing I will >say is that S9 would not been released if SMK would not believe that it is >better than S8! (And I think so as well). > >>In fact I now undersand that a single cpu version of shredder 9 will do worse >>with a Hyper Threading enabled cpu then shredder 8 and will cost more money , be without an UCI engine while shredder 8 has UCI engine , multi threaded twice as >>cheap engine.. >> >>Well I always liked free Crafty... >>And I am happy for now with my shredder 8 from chessbase... > >And you can be happy with it, it is a great engine! > >Bye >Ingo Ingo, If you can clarify a few items for me (us): I was under the impression previous Shredder versions (7 & 8) could be used on multi processors. This option is available in the engine parameters. If I am correct (I run single processor only), is this option still available on S 9 single, or has it be done away with due to a true "deep" version. What is the difference now? DHM
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