Author: Mark Young
Date: 15:09:41 06/26/99
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On June 26, 1999 at 17:59:06, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On June 26, 1999 at 13:35:09, Mark Young wrote: > >>On June 26, 1999 at 12:36:16, Ted Sutton wrote: >> >>>I have seen here enigmatic references to "Shredder 4" as the strongest chess >>>program. These were just tantalizing hints. Does anyone have more information on >>>the the program and its pluses and minuses? >> >>This is because it won the wccc, but they have no proof other then the wccc. >>Shredder may be the strongest program, or it may not be. There is no way to tell >>for sure on just the games we have seen. Shredder 4 is the WC and won the right >>to be called this, but anyone saying that Shredder 4 is the strongest program is >>only guessing. I wish we could run a seven round tournament to determine the >>strongest program, but it not that easy. > >This is completely true, but it is also true that nobody should be going around >saying that Shredder is weak this time, like people did after the Jakarta WMCCC. I agree, it is very unlikely that Shredder could have won if it were far weaker then the other programs. It is more likely to be about as good, to maybe far better then other program. Testing with many games against humans and computer will tell us. > >bruce
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