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Subject: Re: Shredder 5

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 13:43:06 11/17/00

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On November 17, 2000 at 16:33:49, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On November 17, 2000 at 03:06:43, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>>You’ll also get seven
>>versions of Shredder, including “Gambit Shredder” and “Shredder Bean Counter”,
>>so you can find out by yourself which paradigm is best :-) If you are not happy
>>with the engines you are able to create your own.
>
>
>>If you have any specific questions concerning Shredder I will try to answer them
>>here.
>
>Hi Stefan.
>
>What do you understand under Gambit-Shredder ??

Gambit Shredder is faster in sacrifizing pawns and pieces and faster in
attacking the opponent's king. It is also faster finding itself in a loosing
endgame with a material disadvantage.


>What is Gambit-Shredder doing ? "only some fine-tuning and increasing
>of king-attack values in evaluation" or a step into new-paradigm
>direction (make sure that when your answer is "new-paradigm" i will not
>this as a weapon against chessbase or bob :-))))


It's a new paradigm :-)


>What is bean-counter shredder doing ?!


Counting beans, äh pawns :-)


>>these 2 questions interest me the most.

OK, I suggest the following:
I will play an engine match "Shredder Bean Counter" vs. "Gambit Shredder"
tonight and will tell you the result tomorrow, so we all now THE truth.

Stefan



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