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Subject: Re: Shredder 5

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 00:45:30 11/18/00

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On November 17, 2000 at 19:18:09, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On November 17, 2000 at 16:43:06, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>>>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.
>
>is there a miligramm of irony in the last sentence... ?
>
>>>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 :-)
>
>ah ! brilliant !!
>
>that puts you on the list !
>now the only thing we need stefan is the following:
>
>gambit-shredder must be - at least - killing all other
>programs with great sacs and in amazing playing-style. can you
>please do it this way too :-))) thank you.


Yes, that's easy :-)


>
>>>What is bean-counter shredder doing ?!
>
>
>>Counting beans, äh pawns :-)
>
>ah !! brilliant !
>
>is it really playing like fritz this way ? i would advise to
>make a big screen where suddenly - in red of course - the headline:
>
>"Fritz bean counter mode" appears and the evaluations
>is between -0.12 and +0.12.


I am afraid that Fritz is not counting beans but wins. I have high respect of
Frans damned strong program. To make it clear: It is not a bean counter to me in
the sense this term is understood here.


>you can differenciate between 0.00, -0.00, +0.00, -0.03, -0.06 etc....
>
>>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.
>
>i would be more interested in gambit-shredder versus ALL OTHER PROGRAMS.
>
>also it would be interesting to participate with gambit-shredder
>in at least 2 championships (maybe there is a danish one, and an australian
>one...) and gambit-shredder has to win them of course :-))
>
>
>i see this topic is good for another round....



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