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Subject: Re: Shredder 9

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 12:33:10 01/27/05

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On January 27, 2005 at 12:15:54, Ingo Bauer wrote:

>> So you say that it is a fact that Shredder 9 will play better against humans
>>than Shredder 8.
>> And you said that this is for more than one reason. You said that the one is
>>because it's generally a stronger engine, but you don't give the second reason
>>to support your statement.......
>
>I did, one reason that it is generaly better, the other is the better play in
>anti-computer-chess. Two reasons or am I wrong?

Oh, OK. I just wanted to know how it managed to improve in anti-human play? But
i imagine you don't know everything. Sorry for being too curious.....:-)

>
>Does SMK imported any anti-human
>>algorithms........? Or it plays much better at closed positions? Or it avoid
>>closed positions? Where your statement is based on?
>
>I do understand that some people are very curious, but I can only repeat what I
>saw in some games and what I read in some eMails.

Yes i'm too curious. Sorry if i've made you looking for answers.......

>
>> And i don't really understand the "It will throw away much less games now."
>>I don't think that Shredder 8 was unsuccessful against humans, throwing many
>>games against them. Why do you say this......?
>
>Throwing away in Anti-Comp-Games or very closed positions. At the end of the
>time it sometimes starts to throw pieces and lost then.
>
>Btw: The backward analytical capacity is much better now. If you analyse a game
>S9 will memorize a former position much longer then before. Pls do not ask
>anything about that I have not seen the code, I just see the result which I
>allredy described.

>The champ of backward analysis is/was YACE! :-)

Yes absolutely is YACE!

Thanks for the valuable information. I hate looking information about Shredder 9
at Chessbase and see old known things............:-)



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