Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 03:10:55 07/25/05
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On July 25, 2005 at 03:34:13, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 24, 2005 at 21:10:22, Rick Hagen wrote: > >>Despite it's weird Blunder at this tournaments 3rd round (giving away a piece), >>it leads the tourney with 7.5/9 (It has won the tournament with one round to >>spare). >> >>Playing through its games, I came upon this one: >>The "critical" position seems to be: >> >>[D]r1bq1rk1/2p1n1bn/1p1p4/pP1Pp1pp/P1B1Pp2/2NQ1P2/1BPN2PP/R3R1K1 w - - 0 21 >> >>It actually looks Shredder plays with a plan here. >>Bringing it's King to the Q-side, and counter-attacking on the K-side. > >Not to me If you speak about critical position then, yes Shredder didn't succedded in its "plan" (actually it did since the opponent didn't manage to win). But you should accept that the 8-9 moves from 21 and after, hasn't been observed on any other computer program until now. Personally i was amazed by them! Shredder actually had the plan of bringing its King at the Queen side and attacking the King. Of course i don't know if we can call it plan with human criteria or it was just a very deep calculation but i can clearly see that it had this plan....... > >The critical position is later in the game. >It seems to me that black is better after shredder's plan. > In my opinion move 33 and move 45 opening the game and going for the win was the bad choices. If he would not play 33...h3 and just repeated some moves, then Shredder should find a plan to break the closed position. The only was i can find is to bring the Bishop to c1 and the Knight to e2 and threat capturing the f4 or if Knight moves then Pawn-f4 is good. 33...h3 worked well though but opened the position and lost.......
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