Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 15:47:28 11/17/00
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On November 17, 2000 at 16:25:52, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >On November 17, 2000 at 15:51:04, m.d.hurd wrote: > >>On November 17, 2000 at 03:06:43, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >> >>> >>>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. >>> >>>Several engines are included in the package which you can use in the Shredder >>>interface like Shredder, SOS, Crafty and Nimzo 2000. 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. Shredder and SOS are native >>>engines, Crafty and Nimzo use the winboard interface. >>> >>>If you have any specific questions concerning Shredder I will try to answer them >>>here. >>> >>>Oh yes, I forgot, the engine certainly got better :-) >>> >>>I am not sure if and how I should have marked this posting as an ad. If so I ask >>>the moderators to please add the appropriate title. >>> >>>Stefan, author of Shredder >> >> >>What is your anticipated elo rating for s5 and do you have any results from your >>pre-release testing ? > >Shredder got much better compared to S4, that's for sure. Yes, definitely I and >my testers have played games against my competitors, but we got bashed for >publishing results before. I suggest to wait a couple of days more before you >get some results of indenpended testers. Just one thing, Shredder is not afraid >of wild cats :-) > >Stefan Well that is because the wild cats got to the forrest first, and shredder has had time to install anti cat poison ! Wayne
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