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Subject: Re: What's wrong with Shredder?

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 02:51:12 02/20/99

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On February 19, 1999 at 08:32:52, Peter Kasinski wrote:

>Stefan,
>
>Sorry if I gave an unfair assessment of the many new features in Shredder.
>By no means was this an attempt at a comprehensive review. I leave that to KK.
>
>On the other hand, I am surprised that my post would have triggered a question
>"what's wrong with Shredder?". I was clearly impressed with your program.
>Even shortly after Paris I posted here congratulating you and asking why
>Shredder gets so little respect. Its showing in both main and blitz event was
>excellent and clearly demonstrated Jakarta was no fluke.

It was not your post that triggered my reaction. If you feel personally attacked
I am sorry. I really appreciate it if somebody enjoys Shredder, honestly.

>Now, as a self-proclaimed Shredder fan and defender  :-)
>I have a couple of questions:
>
>a) What do you think about a dynamic tablebase lookup?

This is already in my current version of Shredder, so the next release will have
it.

>b) Is there a parallel Shredder in our future?

Yes, there are plans to make it parallel. The next big tournament is a non micro
event, too. We'll see... (to Bob: Don't worry, I won't copy your SMP algorithms
:-) )

Stefan



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