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Subject: Re: Chessbase Shredder 9 weakness

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 08:01:48 05/12/05

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On May 11, 2005 at 12:06:35, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>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.
>
>
>      Such things can happen when not playing enought games.
>      Should results of Shredder 9 not become much better
>      in the next 80 games, something must be wrong with
>      your setup of the engines/GUI/PC. For Shredder 9 test
>      at 40'/40 time control please have a look at
>      [http://www.utzingerk.com/shredder9_test.htm]
>      No other (available) engine will be able to to better.
>      Kurt

Yes all this may be true. But my question is how does it compare with F8 in long
analysis.....of the engines have F8 is heads and shoulders above everything
else....
Wayne




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