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Subject: Re: Paris WMCCC - were programs better than in Jakarta (1996)?

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 11:37:12 11/12/97

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>The Shredder Paris-Version plays much stronger
>than the Jakarta-Version, nevertheless I didn't win
>this time :-(

Right. 100 to 150 points stronger than Shredder 1 !
I hope the ssdf-guys will be able to test Shredder2 soon on FAST
machines.
In the moment they test shredder 1 on slow machines. This reminds me on
a situation after 1993 when hiarcs .... :-(
Ooops. Sorry.

>In my opinion there are a couple of programs around who
>are able to win such a tournament. You need a strong
>program but also a bit of luck to be at the very top.
>

Right too. I counted with Shredder and Virtual chess.
I was not allowed to tell anything about Shredder2, so I said: Virtual
is a strong program.

Of course "nobody" thought about Junior. Maybe Frederic did. Maybe
Frederic did know about Juniors strength for a long time, even before
Jakarta ?!

I believe there are some reasonable connections between Frederic and the
Junior-team. :-)

But for us normal people (:-) without much data about Junior, it was NOT
easy possible to find out. We could test shredder or virtual against
Mchess and Fritz5, but against Junior ?

>I think that the level of chess is increasing continiously
>from year to year. Some years ago you could play some weak
>moves and were still able to win the game.
>Today the first bad move loses the game. It is also very difficult
>for me to find the mistakes in Shredder's lost games.
>I am still not sure where it went wrong in the games against
>Junior and Chess Guru.
>If somebody can help me plese do so.
>
>Stefan

What about the game against Gandalf and the sac on b5 ?
Any comments to this ? I kiebitzed a few times when you looked not very
excited about this game ! It was an unbelievable sharp game. Wasn't your
queen very near to his king ? How could Gandalf had played Bxb5 ?



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