Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 07:38:32 11/05/97
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On November 05, 1997 at 10:16:35, Ingo Althofer wrote: >On November 05, 1997 at 10:11:33, Ingo Althofer wrote: >Sorry. My design of the original posting gave the wrong impression that >Bruce Moreland had posted something which was my comment. The problem is >that I can not write comfortably within my text browser "lynx". >>I want to apologize for my comment on Shredder's strength in Blitz >>chess. I did not intend to give a bad review of Shredder. But I have >>to admit that certain observations from several sources had brought me >>to the >>opinion that Shredder might be not this strong in Blitz. To give you >>some insights: (a) In the manual of Shredder I it is said that Shredder >>is stronger in long time games than in Blitz. (b) If you as a human >>play Blitz against Shredder according to the internal clock of Shredder >>you will be able to beat it by time! This is a total exception among the >>top commercial programs. Thanks to Stefan for designing its clock >>mechanism this honestly. However, I got the very wrong impression that a >>program which loses on time on its own clock can not be this strong. Of >>course this is nonsense ... (c) In almost all media it was said that >>Shredder is not strong in Blitz. I became accustomed to ( or >>brainwashed by ) this --- which led to my remark in the afterthoughts. >>To make it clear, I never played any Blitz games with Shredder against >>other programs, so I do not really know about its Blitz strength >>relative to other programs. My personal score in Blitz against Shredder >>( with the internal clock of Shredder ) is +3 =0 -8. I learned in game 8 >>that Shredder might lose according to its own clock and was able to get >>two more wins in games 9 and 11. In all the other games I was mated. Of course my wins in games 9 and 11 were also by time ... I have never been able to beat Shredder in a "normal" way. ( Instead I am only able to win w i t h the help of Shredder in 3-Hirn settings against fourth parites. ) IA
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