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After a break for half a year SSDF now presents ratings for four PC-programs and three non-PC entrants. The strongest among them is Stefan Meyer-Kahlens Deep Shredder 12 UCI Q6600 with a rating of 3124 after 863 tournament games.The improvement compared to Deep Shredder 11 is 86 points and gives a third place on the list!

We have also tested the same program on Athlon 1200 MHz, and here Shredder 12 gets 99 points more than itīs predecessor which gives it a rating of 3006. Only Rybka 3 has a higher rating on the Athlon-hardware.

Lately we have tested Johan de Konings King 3.5 Q6600, and the result is a rating of 2866. That is 146 points more than CM9000 has on the slower hardware A1200.

Another program from Stefan Meyer-Kahlen is tested in the handheld computer Ipaq 114 624 MHz. The name is Pocket Shredder and itīs rating after 100 games is 2698. This makes it the second strongest non-PC entrant after Pocket Fritz 3 Hiarcs on the same hardware.

Tord Romstads program Glaurung 2.1 is now tested on Pocket Fritz 3 Ipaq 614C. After the first 100 tournament games it has a rating of 2528.

Christophe Therons program Chess Tiger 2009, running on a Palm Tung C has a rating of 2229. That is 126 points more than an earlier version has on a weaker Palm.

Thoralf Karlsson