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Subject: Re: congrats to Gandalf

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 05:46:45 12/29/05

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On December 29, 2005 at 08:36:27, Sandro Necchi wrote:

>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

Keep it up!
Good luck!
S.Taylor



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