Author: Barry Culp
Date: 12:39:30 01/22/06
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On January 22, 2006 at 14:44:11, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 22, 2006 at 02:31:39, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: > >>If shredder 9 was no better than 8, why on earth did people by it? and why was >>it sold? > >Some reasons: > >1)The claim that shredder9 is not better than shredder8 is only an opinion and >there is a different opinion(Shredder9 has bigger rating than shredder8 in the >ssdf list). > >2)The pv of shredder8 is less reliable than the pv of shredder9 > >3)People do not buy only something that is stronger and there are other reasons >to buy programs like different style. > >4)using a different personality that you believe that it is better. > >Unfortunately most people who use shredder9s prefer not to share information >about it's results and testers prefer not to test shredder9s so we will probably >never get information if shredder9s is better than default shredder. > >Uri One reason why I bought Shredder 9 use a new engine option "Use tablebase options .. never/late/early/normal" . Shredder 8 was very aggressive in its search in using tablebases. With Shredder 9, I always use the "late" option as my preference.
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