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Subject: Re: Shredder 9CB vs. Shredder 9UCI

Author: Ingo Bauer

Date: 04:07:55 02/14/05

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On February 14, 2005 at 06:56:38, Ingo Bauer wrote:

>On February 14, 2005 at 04:54:37, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On February 13, 2005 at 17:40:32, Ingo Bauer wrote:
>>
>>>On February 13, 2005 at 17:13:00, Darren Rushton wrote:
>>>
>>>>What is the concensus ref. Shredder 9 (Chessbase) vs. Shredder 9 UCI
>>>>strengthwise?
>>>>
>>>>Are they exactly the same program just supporting 2 different interfaces, or is
>>>>the UCI version stronger?
>>>
>>>Both engines are absolutly identical!
>>>
>>>With S8/7 the UCI version was usually ~2% faster, maybe because they are EXE
>>>files while the CB version is a dll. I have not checked this with Shredder 9 but
>>>to prove the difference you would need a couple of 10000 games to be sure that
>>>there is a difference in strength.
>>>
>>>Again, to clarify this, both versions have an identical code base.
>>>
>>>Bye
>>>Ingo
>>
>>And oddly I decided not to buy either.
>>
>>With the Chessbase version I get the strong engine, yet I am stuck in one
>>interface.
>>
>>With the Shredder Classic 1.2 version, I get the strong engine, and a strong
>>book, but I can't use the book in anything but that interface.
>
>With that logic you can not buy any Fritz, Tiger, Junior, Hiarcs ... in the
>future and you should not have bought them in the past because ...

... there never "was" or will be a free UCI engine with them!

Sorry had to correct that! :-)

Ingo



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