Shredder 10 Released

http://www.shredderchess.com/chess-news/shredder-news/shredder-10-uci-out.html

It sounds like a nice upgrade. But the real test is its performance against Rybka 1.2.

Originally posted by exigentsky
http://www.shredderchess.com/chess-news/shredder-news/shredder-10-uci-out.html

It sounds like a nice upgrade. But the real test is its performance against Rybka 1.2.

I'm ready to upgrade from Fitz 8.0. Should I buy Fritz 9.0 or Shredder?
Or even another chess program??? 😕

Originally posted by arrakis
I'm ready to upgrade from Fitz 8.0. Should I buy Fritz 9.0 or Shredder?
Or even another chess program??? 😕

You're the "expert".

Originally posted by arrakis
I'm ready to upgrade from Fitz 8.0. Should I buy Fritz 9.0 or Shredder?
Or even another chess program??? 😕

I say go for Shredder.

Hey All,
Didn't Hydra win the contest between the Shredder 9 and Hydra #whatever?

KingOnPoint

Shredder 10 has just been released and a Chessbase version will follow shortly. I would go for Shredder.

For the past two hours or so, I've been trying Shredder Classic 2. First, I set it at 1700 without limiting its book knowledge. After destroying it in one game, I upped it to 1800. The same thing happened, so I raised its level to 1900. Better, but still not enough. Now, it's at 2000 and I'm going to play it tomorrow.

Why? I'm rated ~1800 on FICS and ~1900 on Playchess.com. (probably overrated on both) From my experience, Shredder playing at 1700 feels like some mid 1500 player. First of all, even without limiting its book knowledge, it plays dumb openings. For example: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. c3?! Bg7 Why not d4? Secondly, it plays quite badly in the positional game that arises from such an opening. For example, when rated at 1900, it allowed me to trade my bishop for his Knight on f3 when only the g pawn protected it. After I moved to Nf5, unchallenged, he had a bad game. I don't expect such blunders at this level. All in all, it seems that like Chessmaster, Shredder's ELO is at least 150 points optimistic.

Originally posted by exigentsky
For the past two hours or so, I've been trying Shredder Classic 2. First, I set it at 1700 without limiting its book knowledge. After destroying it in one game, I upped it to 1800. The same thing happened, so I raised its level to 1900. Better, but still not enough. Now, it's at 2000 and I'm going to play it tomorrow.

Why? I'm rated ~1800 on FICS and ...[text shortened]... in all, it seems that like Chessmaster, Shredder's ELO is at least 150 points optimistic.

They probably do that on purpose to make the customer feel good.

Originally posted by KingOnPoint
Hey All,
Didn't Hydra win the contest between the Shredder 9 and Hydra #whatever?

KingOnPoint

Except that Hydra is a combination of software and hardware running on a large number of processors (I was corrected last time I attempted to say what number). You can't run Hydra on your home computer. Of course it will perform better on millions of dollars of dedicated hardware than Shredder (or Fritz) does on a commerically available PC.

Originally posted by exigentsky
For the past two hours or so, I've been trying Shredder Classic 2. First, I set it at 1700 without limiting its book knowledge. After destroying it in one game, I upped it to 1800. The same thing happened, so I raised its level to 1900. Better, but still not enough. Now, it's at 2000 and I'm going to play it tomorrow.

Why? I'm rated ~1800 on FICS and ...[text shortened]... in all, it seems that like Chessmaster, Shredder's ELO is at least 150 points optimistic.

Don't waste your time playing against throttled engines. They do not in any way correspond to real ratings and even if they did they don't play like a human. Making an engine play like a flawed human is an extremely troublesome problem and I predict which ever product gets it right first will be in for a major boost.