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Subject: Re: Could we get a Shredder 9.04 upgrade coming out of IPCCC?

Author: Rex

Date: 04:16:25 02/27/05

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On February 27, 2005 at 07:03:13, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 27, 2005 at 06:27:00, Ernst Walet wrote:
>
>>On February 27, 2005 at 06:09:15, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>
>>>On February 27, 2005 at 06:00:06, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 27, 2005 at 05:54:35, Rex wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>With all that was learned out of IPCCC I sure would like a "free" update.
>>>>>
>>>>>Enjoy
>>>>
>>>>      I am almost sure that there will be no such update.
>>>>      At Paderborn an experimental version of Shredder 9
>>>>      is participating and nobody knows about the real
>>>>      playing strength of it.
>>>>      Kurt
>>>
>>>
>>>No, we have used the same 9.0 version.
>>>
>>>We only used a modified book for the tournament...an intermediate version for
>>>the next WCCC or match against Hydra hoping someone can arrange it.
>>>
>>>Sandro
>>
>>Hydra has beated Shredder once in a match (and here in Paderborn), what can they
>>gain from a rematch?
>
>What did they gain from the previous match?
>Hydra did not become commercial.
>Is there a single company that sells more products thanks to the success of
>hydra.
>
>I also never understood what IBM earned from the match of deep blue that they
>could not earn from a rematch after they won.
>
>If we talk about advertisment then people could read about deep blue in the
>newspaper regardless of the final result and I doubt if there is a single human
>who buy from IBM when the result is 3.5-2.5 for IBM against kasparov and stop to
>buy from IBM if the result is 3.5-2.5 for kasparov in a rematch.
>
>Uri


If Team Hydra developed a hardware based "consumer grade" Chess program, I would
purchase it.



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