Author: Aloisio Ponti Lopes
Date: 21:20:15 02/01/00
I really enjoyed playing against Shredder. Nice interface, strong engine. Very nice boards/pieces collection. As I am rated <2000 ELO, I just can't dream of beating it, I think; an excellent teacher for my 3 year-old-son! I like to play Blitz, and Shredder plays it very well, although it's not the best at Blitz, I think. In general, I like Shreddder's more than Rebel's GUI(DOS). I just can't imagine how there are people complaining about such a well-made program. It really makes my CM 5500 looks like a toy. I have Hiarcs 7.32 and Fritz 5 (old 16 bit version). ChessBase GUI is really the best in my opinion. I tryed the demo version of ChessPartner, did not like that GUI. My next buy: Junior. Version=? (I'm just curious and waiting the result of that C. Theron- Amir Ban's personal match! ). About Genius 6.5: nice program, but the GUI is not what I expected. NIMZO 2000: nice blitz player, just that. My congratulations to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen for such a nice program. I don't think luck was all that made Shredder the World Champion. Karpov was lucky when Fischer did not play the match for the FIDE title, but he played many tournaments since then and won most of them, just like Kasparov is doing nowadays. I think maybe the problem with Shredder is that it is well-tuned for tournament play, not for faster play. In the SSDF list we see Shredder 2, but not Shredder 4. The k6 processor is not the best to use with Shredder, and SSDF uses K6-450; so for those Shredder results it doesn't seem to be as reliable as Karpov's wins or Kasparov's wins at tournaments. Rebel is also a very nice engine and it isn't listed (yes, I know why). I know it is very difficult to play those matches manually, with so many games, and the AUTO232 protocol seems to be old and does not run with all the engines. In the years to come, there'll be more engines. So how reliable will this "rating method" be? I think playing against IGM is a great way to rate an engine, just what Rebel is doing very well. That comp-comp rating is in my opinion, inflated and not reliable. I just can't imagine Anand beating Leko 12 games with the same opening in double games and inflating his rating! That will _never_ happen! (even a child would not loose 12 games in the same opening to an engine with the same moves). So, this is the way I see the list: Engine general strengh (CompxComp): #1. Tiger 12 (with some future(?) improvements: better book learning) #2. Junior 6 (one processor) #3. Shredder 4 #4. Rebel Engine general strengh (against humans): #1. Rebel #2. Shredder #3. Junior 6 Blitz: #1. Nimzo 7.32 #2. Tiger 12 #3. Junior 6 Endings: #1. Shredder 4 #2. Junior 6 Tactics: #1. Fritz 6 #2. Junior 6 #3. ChessMaster 7000 Strategy: #1. Rebel-Century #2. Hiarcs 7.32 #3. Shredder 4 ------------------------------------------------------------ A. Ponti
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