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Subject: Re: Tasc R30 faster than Shredder 9 on a modern PC?

Author: Martin Slowik

Date: 06:46:44 03/31/05

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On March 31, 2005 at 08:23:14, F. Huber wrote:

>On March 31, 2005 at 08:08:32, Martin Slowik wrote:
>
>Hi Martin,
>
>>I am well known for doing things without thinking, just ask my chess
>>computers...
>
>LOL - that might be true for most of us, at least sometimes ... ;-)
>
>>How do I know in advance which mode to use. I haven't found anything in the
>>readme (I was not looking into the source files...). 'Automatic' seemed a
>>plausible mode, since my R30 found the mate also 'automatically'. :)
>
>Well, as a general rule I would say:
>For shorter mates (up to about #10) _always_ try ´Normal´-mode first!
>Only if you see that it would really take too much time in this ´brute force´
>mode (or if you have a much deeper mate problem), then I would use the
>´Automatic´ (or even better the ´AutoTurbo´) mode - but in this case it´s
>very important to know at least the mate depth and set this value correctly
>(in ´SearchDepth´), otherwise you could get _any_ possible higher mate instead
>of the shortest one (and of course it could also take some time).
>
>>P.S. I'm using the Shredder(ChessBase) via the UCI-interface.
>
>Ok, of course ChestUCI is working in this GUI (don´t forget to open the extra
>´Engine output window´ to see all infos from ChestUCI!), but Arena-GUI or
>ShredderClassic-GUI are really _much_ better for ChestUCI -
>so if you have one of them, you should give it a try ...
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Thank you, Franz. I have both and will give them a try.
(Actually I'm using the DGT board together with the Shredder Classic interface,
so I will rather use that one).

Best,
Martin



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