Author: William Penn
Date: 22:39:13 02/15/05
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On February 15, 2005 at 22:14:16, Peter Skinner wrote: >On February 15, 2005 at 21:37:13, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I do not understand what you need. >> >>If Shredder9 is going to be better than Fritz9 then I see no advantage for >>Fritz9. >> >>Uri > >Just because Shredder is stronger than Fritz doesn't mean that Shredder is the >be all of chess programs, and one should only purchase it. > >I believe that Fritz is going to make a nice leap in strength, and I already >have Shredder 8. There is no point in getting 9. > >Peter Shredder 9 has some new features and improvements over Shredder 8. For example you can set the engine to access tablebases early, normal, or late in Shredder 9. Shredder 8 churned my hard drive way too much in endgames and the analysis usually slowed down to a snail's pace. Now it works correctly in Shredder 9, even with the default normal setting. If you analyze positions very much, you may also appreciate that Shredder 9 has removed the stupid blunders in the analysis lines, such as giving away the queen. It may not be perfect in that regard yet, but usually the analysis lines make sense now. Speed is a factor too. I'm finding that Shredder 8 and 9 are about the same speed in closed positions and with most of the pieces still on the board. But Shredder 9 shows a significant relative speedup when the position opens up, and/or several pieces have been exchanged. If we play a game sometime, I hope you stick to your resolve not to buy Shredder 9... :) WP
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