Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:29:32 05/20/05
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On May 20, 2005 at 21:18:18, Komputer Korner wrote: >True to their word on their Chessbase site, Shredder 9 's exciting new feature >of not discarding it's analysis when the user manually steps back in the move >path and then goes back to the latest position actually works well. How does >this not weaken Shredder slightly when analyzing in infinite mode? I am >wondering whether this feature (which seems to be a nice one because you don't >have to wait for the latest analysis the 2nd time you view a position.)actually >costs you more in the end because of hash table limits that may get reached. >Does any other program do this? On a 2.8GHz computer with a 285 MB hash table, >when does it get filled up with an average engine now and would this feature >make much of a difference? Please, only chess computer programmers responses >on this one. As long as both positions are in the hash table, lots of computations will be saved. Another wonderful thing about Shredder 9 (I use the classic interface with the UCI version) is that it will reuse analysis for subsequent positions. So, if you take a game and turn it into PGN records and analyze each position at 10 minutes, after it analyzes the first position, it will jump immediately to ply 19 on the second position and so on, all the way to the end. It's a marvelous time saver and makes the analysis as good as double the time analysis without that feature. The latest version of Shredder is the neatest thing since sliced bread. One small issue is that the EPD output records are not fully standard, and so I have to run them through a SED script before I use them. But what am I whining about? The ChessBase GUI is totally incapable of EPD output altogether. Arena also does not know how to produce it. Even Bruce Moreland's wonderful EPD2WB thingy does not write out the result records. I can process EPD with ChessAssistant, but once in a while the analysis gets lots and I have no idea why. So Shredder for me, all the way. Boy, oh boy, do I like the latest version of Shredder. And did I mention that I think it is peachy-creamy keen with a cherry on top?
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