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Subject: Re: Shredder 9 UCI - First Impressions

Author: Jason Kent

Date: 15:06:25 02/07/05

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>Shredder UCI, despite what version, is normaly impossible to forfeit on time!

Both S8 UCI and S9 UCI lose on time fairly regularly in Arena, Shredder Classic,
and Fritz 8 GUIs.

If
>you think that playing Shredder versus Shredder makes sence repeat that under
>the delivered Classic GUI! I saw more than 10000 games played with different UCI
>Shredders and NEVER saw a forfeit on time from Shredder!
>I have to admit that because engine play in a GUI uses time, it makes sence to
>play at least a  "+1 second" in whatever GUI (of course + 1/10 of a secoun would
>be enough but that is impossible).

Shredder seems to really like increments for blitz games.  I'm not sure why it
plays worse without them.

Jason



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