Author: Helmut Conrady
Date: 14:01:39 02/05/05
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On February 05, 2005 at 16:47:45, Eran Karu wrote: >In the interview with Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, the programmer of Shredder, that >comes from the Arena website, but the interview is in German. > >He was asked what was different between Shredder 8 and Shredder 9. He said that >the new engine of Shredder 9 evaluates defense resources with king attacks >better; this applies both sides of a game. Of course, Shredder 9 plays better >middlegames thru endgames. What impresses me the most is that a new feature of >Shredder 9 Classic UCI that enables it to access tablebases of up to six pieces >in a server online! A very interesting idea. The size of that tablebases is 750 >GB. You don't have to install 6-piece tablebases on your computer because of too >large size. Instead you can use Shredder 9 to analyze an endgame position >overnight while searching tablebases online. However, I have two questions: > >1. Does searching tablebase online weaken a chess engine a bit? No. You can use these Tbs in Shredder-GUI not in the search, but only, when the TB-position is on the board. > >2. Will accessing tablebases online cost money or be free? The first. Of course you need to connect via your provider. Helmut
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