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Subject: Re: Shredder 5

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 07:37:29 11/18/00

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On November 18, 2000 at 03:37:40, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:

>On November 17, 2000 at 18:47:28, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>
>>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 !
>
>Anti cat poison is hard to find theses days, so it needs more than a couple of
>days or weeks to find it.
>

Ahhhh, I C. The question is did he find it ?

Wayne


>Stefan
>
>
>>
>>Wayne



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