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Subject: Re: Shredder4 costs too much! / "Program of the quarter " club?

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 21:36:39 01/23/00

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On January 23, 2000 at 22:41:57, Marc Plum wrote:

>On January 23, 2000 at 17:01:47, Ted Sutton wrote:
>
>>On January 22, 2000 at 19:01:28, Marc Plum wrote:
>>
>>>For my $100 I got not just Shredder 4, but Genius 6.5, Nimzo2000, and Ken
>>>Thompson's tablebases.  Seems like a pretty good deal to me.
>>>
>>>Marc
>>>
>> Marc:
>> That sounds like a great deal. Where did you get these 4 programs for just
>>$100?
>> Also, is how is Genius 6.5 and Nimzo2000 different from the latest Fritz?
>>      Thanks, Ted
>
>These programs are all part of a 6 CD set, "The Millenium World Champion Super
>Package" which is sold by ICD, and other dealers.  It also includes some earlier
>versions of Shredder.  I'm satisfied that I got my money's worth for this one. I
>haven't seen Shredder 4.0 advertised for sale separately.
>
>I can't really give a good answer to your second question; Genius and Nimzo are
>strong programs, but I don't have enough information to compare them directly
>with Fritz6.  I was just making the point that for your $100, you get several
>programs.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Marc

 Yep, agree, I'm also very satisfied with this buy. Shredder 4,0 is the
 worldchampion and of course a very powerful program. Very strong in the
 endgame and possibly better at tournamentlevel than blitz and rapid.
 Works perfectly and has IMO a very nice wooden interface + others.
 Genius 6.5 has it's roots in Richard Lang's program. Described as "Strateg".
 Comes with a databank of 500.000 games with lots of searchoptions.
 Nimzo 2000 is a fast, tacticly very dangerous program. Thompsons Endgame CD:s
 covers all important endgame with 4-5 piecies. And then all the extra "oldies",
 though I must confess I use Shredder 3.0 in it's original interface.
 That makes it 4 stand-alone programs and a bunch of engines (f.e. WbNimzo2000b)

 Regards
 Sune




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