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Subject: Re: Chessbase Shredder 9 weakness

Author: Clive Munro

Date: 08:06:09 05/11/05

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On May 11, 2005 at 10:44:16, phili_ppe wrote:

>Hello
>I have Fritz8 on my computer and have installed over it Shredder 9 Chessbase
>(49,99 €)in the same directories. The GUI has been updated, there is a new tree
>opening book and a new 510.000 database, ok fine. As I was curious about its
>strength I made a Fritz8 vs S9 5 minutes blitz match with the Shredder9 opening
>book, 48 mb hash table, 5 men endgame TB, ponder off, well exactly the same
>settings for each engine. And ...  Hell ! Fritz8 crushes S9 ... +10 =1 -1 !!!
>I make another test with Shredder Classic 1.2 trialware and Shredder9 (CB) loses
>again ! Has anyone made a tournament with the same poor results ?
>I have winxp sp1 and 512 mb ram.
Hi Phil


This is a very poor way to test an Engine accurately. Some engines can hog
recourses more than others especially when using hash tables. To get more
accurate results you will need to use two PCs.

Best

Clive



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