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Subject: Re: What's wrong with Shredder?

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 05:32:37 02/19/99

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On February 19, 1999 at 04:48:53, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:

>To be honest I also think that Shredder has a pretty bad reputation for reasons
>unknown to me. This has been like this since Jakarta, when everybody claimed
>that this was just pure luck and was only possible because there was no other
>strong program around. Still today if somebody post a message here and is
>numbering the top programs I have never seen anybody mentioning Shredder.

I beg your pardon! :)

I know of at least one guy that recently posted games played by Shredder 3 day
after day for 2 weeks, as part of a tournament where Shredder scored better than
50% against all the best commercials.

> Well,
>maybe I should really spend more time in here to read ALL the articles :-)
>
>OK, I don't want to complain too much and keep on working to improve Shredder,
>so here's my question:
>
>What's wrong with Shredder?

Nothing at all. It is one of the best. By the way, yesterday I received Shredder
3 for Millenium, so I can even pick the interface I like best. Good for you!

Enrique

>Any input would be nice and really welcome. Does it play weak chess? (Did you
>really play games or just run some tests?) Do you want it to solve test
>positions or play games? Do you rather have a blitz monster that plays strong at
>3min/game on a Pentium 100 or do you rather have something for longer
>timecontrols and analysis? Do you hate the GUI? What's missing?
>
>I would really love to get some feedback.
>
>Stefan (author of Shredder)
>
>
>PS: About computer chess world championships: You can be very sure that Shredder
>or any other program of mine will compete in every computer chess world
>championships around for the next 10 years at least. OK? No doubt about that!
>This has always been one of my major interests for various reasons, so please
>don't worry about that.



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