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Subject: Re: congrats to Gandalf

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 05:36:27 12/29/05

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On December 29, 2005 at 07:55:38, stuart taylor wrote:

>On December 29, 2005 at 06:40:24, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>a very good tournament for them!
>
>For THEM!
>
>But of course, as soon as what's his name starts working seriously on Shredder
>10, then that Shredder be above ALL, by atleast 50 elo points?

Well, we just started working on the engine and even if improved it is not as
good as we want, but we have still time before Shredder 10 will be released so
we should not worry about this.
We will try to be above all by at least 50 points, but we are not at that level
now.

>
>(I'm sure it should have won now, too, but perhaps he didn't leave himself
>enough time [OR, it was a bad start, and there wern't enough games])

Well, 2004 and 2005 have been bad years as far as the development of Shredder is
concerned.

I had to move to Lucca (not to far from Florence) and move again to the new
house in October this year (so twice; also look for the house take care of works
to be done etc...) besides that I was extremely busy with my work (I am a Sales
Office Manager) as the move was related to move the office as well and I had to
hire almost all new people and give a training to all of them as the sales
should not suffer from this. We did achive a very good result both last year and
this year, but could not work much on the book as my free time was quite
limited.
My book cooperator had similar problems as his father died and later his mother
too and he could not work on the book as well.
Stefan did several new release as far as commercial products and did not work on
the engine until recently.
So, we are all now back to work, but we need some time to prepare it and we plan
to be ready for Torino.
All I could do was to prepare the new Shredder 10 book 95%...not trying to find
excuses but there is an explanation to everything...so for those who are funs of
Shredder be confident we all are back working on it...and motivated!

>
>S.Taylor

Sandro



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