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Subject: Re: Shredder 9

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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