Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 02:17:24 11/17/00
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On November 17, 2000 at 04:29:40, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 17, 2000 at 03:06:43, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: > ><snipped> >>Shredder 5 is being produced now, so if you are interested you will be able to >>get it within a couple of days. I am very sorry for the delay we had, but I >>think the work I did recently was worth the few extra days. >> >>There are many new features in Shredder, you can use multiple engines at the >>same time, including winboard engines, and pair the against each other. Another >>new feature is the “triple brain”, you can load any two engines into Shredder >>and let them both analyse a given position. The “triple brain” will use their >>search information to find out which program has a better understanding of the >>position and will choose the move of that engine. This will also work during >>games, so you are able to play against any combination of two chess programs. > >1)Is the tripple brain better or worse than one of the engines?(It leads to the >question if shredder5 is the best program in the package or maybe it is possible >to improve it by using the tripple brain of shredder5 and another engine) It depends of the strength of the 2nd engine. With a second engine of Shredder's strength the triple brain is stronger. > >2)Does the tripple brain give the engines equal time or does it decide which >engine to choose after a part of the search? The triple brain is doing the time management, the engines are just in infinite mode. > >3)You say that the tripple brain will use the search information of the engines. >In order to use the search information of the engines you need to know it. > >The only information that I get from programs without free source code is >usually only evaluations,times,depth and main lines. >Do you call this information the search information? Yes, this is what I was referring to. Stefan
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