Author: Sylvain Renard
Date: 16:03:40 06/26/99
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On June 26, 1999 at 17:59:06, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>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.
Hello,
saying it was a weak program after Jakarta was certainly exagerated
(however some people seem to think here that Fritz 5.32 is a weak program...).
But after the 12th Aegon Tournament, some people had to think that it
was not so strong (Schredder scored 2.5/6 TPR = 2148).
There were only 6 games at The Hague? It's true, but only 7+1 in Paderborn.
My opinion is that we don't have enough games to be certain that
Schredder 4 is really the best program. We could have thought in Paris 1997 that
Junior was much stronger than the others because it had 9.5/11 and the second
only 8/11. But Amir Ban himself admitted here for instance that "Fritz was hard
to beat in a long match" (to the people who tested both programs at home and
were surprised that Junior did not crush Fritz 15-5 but on the contrary Fritz
was the winner; thanks for your honesty Amir! ).
In Paderborn, many programs were very close. The World Champion may or may not
be the strongest, but I am sure it is a strong program. And if the hierarchy
established in Parderborn was certain, it would not be funny : the people who
will buy Schredder 4 and the other ones and spend hundreds of hours
testing them and playing thousands of games between them would do all this
work for nothing. :-)
Good future tests to all!
friendly,
Sylvain Renard
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