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Subject: Re: Does Shredder7.04 have any weakness?

Author: Stephen Ham

Date: 08:46:06 04/24/03

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On April 24, 2003 at 09:45:38, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On April 24, 2003 at 09:33:36, Eran wrote:
>
>>If yes, what are they?
>>
>>Eran
>
>    Shredder 7.04 is a fine software, perhaps the strongest chess program
>    at the moment ... but it's sometimes too optimistic
>    Kurt

Kurt is correct, per usual. Shredder 7 and Shredder 7.04's evaluation function
is too optimistic. Nonetheless, Shredder 7.04 is probably the strongest engine
on the market. I do have a gripe too about its opening book in the ChessBase
GUI, since it's not nearly restrictive enough. I've manually corrected this on
my Schredder, so it's very strong (it now plays only MY opening lines that I
play in Correspondence Chess). Sandro Necchi, the author of Shredder's Book is
correct that the Shredder Classic GUI restricts its openings to only the
strongest lines.

I also believe that version 7.04 is clearly stronger than 7. This is especially
evident as the time-control increases.

As for Shredder's strengths/weaknesses, here's my review, found at
ChessCafe.com:

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review365.pdf

All the best,

Stephen





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