Author: William Penn
Date: 19:06:23 07/20/05
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On July 20, 2005 at 17:27:10, stuart taylor wrote: >On July 20, 2005 at 15:42:18, Bernardo Wesler wrote: > >>to imagine a new version of shredder that is worth to be released.... What for ? >>I guess that from now on , to get an acceptable gap (in ELO)that justifies a new >>release will be so hard .... It would be very nice to see in this forum a >>serious analysis between the real differences (i mean in strength) among fritz >>6, 7 and 8, or among shredder 7.04, shredder 8 and sh9, and among junior, and so >>on..... Is it worth to pay between 50 and 100 dollars for a few elo points more? >>Maybe it would be great to pay 10 or 20 dollars for those small gaps >>updates..... But it is just my opinion. >>Thx to everybody in advance. > >Me personally? I want Shredder 10 to be a worthy upgrade to Shredder 7.04, and >THAT would make me happy. Of course, it must also not be a downgrade to Shredder >9, in any aspect. I would not have been so happy if I had actually bought all >of Shredders 7,8 and 9. > >I would be prepared to pay $2-300 for upgrades of 150-200 elo points, but I'm >not so sure I would even want to pay 10 or 20 dollars for these small elo >increases, partly because of the money, but also partly because it is not so >interesting for me to adjust to something different to what I had been working >with, unless it's a very clear difference, which I can sense with every move. >S.Taylor Elo improvements are important but not the whole story. GUI functionality is important too. The main thing the Shredder GUI lacks is good database and opening book handling, and the CB GUI has it beat badly in that category. I would also like to see it remember prior positions it has analyzed better. It only recalls a small percentage of them in my experience. If it could include some aspects of "Freezer" for endgame improvements that would be a nice bonus too. WP
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