Author: Abel Dávalos
Date: 17:08:45 02/12/05
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On February 12, 2005 at 19:47:16, stuart taylor wrote: >On February 12, 2005 at 18:35:27, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>A couple of years back I stated with absolute certainty that Chess Tiger 12 was >>the best chess program I'd seen up to then. And it was, really, notwithstanding >>the SSDF list where it eventually held spot #1 for a while. >> >>Now I can say that Shredder 9 is the best chess program ever. In my opinion of >>course, which some of you may well doubt. But I firmly contend that Shredder 9 >>is a work of art, something that a chess friend of mine called a Chinese piece >>of art, rounded and perfect. Congratulations to the author for this primarily >>labour of love, and not solely of programming perfection. >> >>I am amazed at its playing prowess, at its intelligence and, in ultima linea, at >>its performance against other programs. >> >> >>-- >>Djordje > >I am the second here to ask a similar question, as follows..... >It's nice to hear someone is happy, and it's also well known that many chess >programs are now really great, in very many ways, much much more than a few >years ago. >But how do you compare Shredder 9 to Shredder 8, or to 7.04? or to other top >programs from the top 10 or so, or even the top 5? >I am one of a few people here waiting exasperatedly for results to come through >about Shredder 9. The past over 2 years, there has hardly been a program, which >clearly outsmarts its recent predescessors, and Shredder 9 is still unclear if >it does. It appears that it does not CRUSH its closest rivals, but it's still >possible that it might be slightly a first among equals, slightly "more equal" >than others. But I don't know. >Are you answering that question for us? Or are you just comparing it to Tiger >12? >S.Taylor here you go some numbers. Nunn2 test Shredder 9 vs. Shredder 8 Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz 15 minutes for all the game Shredder 9 +15 =25 -10 More or less 30 points above of shredder 8, but my impression is that with more large times shredder 9 will do better. A. Davalos
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