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

Author: George Tsavdaris

Date: 04:52:09 02/27/05

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On February 27, 2005 at 07:22:44, Sandro Necchi wrote:

>>And this is my original question.  Why should we NOT see a Shredder 9.01 free
>>release based on some knowledged learned from IPCCC?  Sure would be nice.
>
>Maybe after the match against Hydra...:-)
>
>Well, do not forget that we cannot test against Hydra while they do and they
>have no money problems at all to test with any kind of harware.
>
>If we will improve the program, as we are planning, we may will make a Shredder
>10 new realease or an upgrade to 9.0 as Stefan will decide later...
>
>First we need to improve the program and beat Hydra...
>

 In my opinion and from what i have seen so far from "Shredder 9 + the used
hardware" and "Hydra + 16 or 32 processors" is that the two
Chess-playing-systems are about equal with Hydra having a slighly better
knowledge on attacking the King.

BUT since:
A)Shredder's book was available for studying it and i don't think that the
modification you played was something totally different.....
B)Shredder 9 is available for testing and finding holes-weak parts at it and the
exact Shredder 9 played this last tournament......
C)Shredder didn't played using 16 CPU's or 32 CPU's.......
D)Hydra isn't available for testing and finding holes-weak parts at it.....
E)Hydra's book, even a modification of it, isn't available......

i think Shredder is far on top............ And since i didn't know that Shredder
's version that played against Hydra the 8 match and lost was a "buggy"
(whatever this mean) version, i can strengthen my opinion about this
matter.......

>
>>
>>
>>>This kind of positions are not frequent, so to take a single game as "rule" is
>>>wrong to me.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Remember Deep Blue in New York.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Sure I would like there to be such an event, but I am afraid it will not be.
>>>
>>>I believe there will be; maybe in summer.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Ernst.
>>>
>>>Sandro



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