Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 13:34:53 05/21/05
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On May 21, 2005 at 08:35:44, William Penn wrote: >I'm not a current chess computer programmer, but want to comment that this >feature does NOT work reliably on my Windows XP Home computer. I have had no >satisfactory response from the author or from others here on this forum. I sent >several examples to the author but he didn't respond in depth, nor >satisfactorily, to explain nor rationalize nor fix the problem. > >It works only occasionally for me, perhaps 1 time in 10. When it works, it's >great, but unfortunately that's rare. > >I have noticed that it is most likely to work when a capture is involved, but it >occasionally works when no capture is involved. It may also be more likely to >work if there are fewer intervening games before the prior game is recalled for >continued analysis. > >So there is some kind of random bug on my computer, apparently. Either that, or >there is insufficient/unclear explanation of exactly what this feature is >supposed to be and do. It certainly does not work as expected. Shredder 8 is >more reliable in this regard than Shredder 9, in my experience. It looks like >the new .pl2 file just isn't working right for me. > >I have the Shredder 9 UCI version. >WP Something is very strange with Shredder9 and the Fritz UIC. I have reported on numerous crashes with other features such as attempting to use some of the keys in the databases such as endgame and strategy keys. Others haven't found this and now you report that the saved analysis feature on move takeback doesn't seem to work. Chessbase support seems to have disappeared these days. However, overall I like Shredder's evaluation of positions and the other features that do work and thus do not want my money back. Don't worry too much about the move analysis feature not working. It saves a little time on analysis in takeback situations but it must cost some on Shredder's overall strength when not taking back moves because it takes up valuable hash table space. However a forced moveline is where this feature really would be a net benefit to the engine.
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