Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 20:28:26 11/25/97
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On November 25, 1997 at 17:07:54, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Thorsten: >Hey, you have gave us a taste of the cake, now is up to you to give us >the complete stuff. I would love -all of us, I believe- the full >hiostory behind the scenes. Is too much ask to ask you a translation? My >german begins and end with "¡Achtung!". >Chao Since he has gone to bed, I will try, and he can correct it in the morning: "Shredder, the better Genius" Hello Stefan, Thorsten called me today, and said that you had been excitedly asking for the games of the tournament. Therefore, now a short tournament report and some comments of mine: The tournament was played in seven rounds in the Swiss system. The "thinking time" was 3 hours per game using an external clock. Shredder 2.0 was able to come out on top in the tournament, winning with 6.5 out of 7, even with all of the available current top programs participating! With that it appeared, that Shredder has locked up second place in the world at least! The opening library is very big and seemingly outstandingly coordinated -- A compliment! The opponents could in no way bring Shredder out of book in a clearly inferior position. The worst Shredder did out of book came against Rebel 9 in the seventh round. Shredder 2.0 plays a pressure-filled, but strategically-oriented game of chess, but in no case boring! Tactically, it didn't leave anything exposed, and positionally / strategically it didn't offer much to the opponent. (Note: I am not sure of the translation of the last sentence--too many idioms--kp) Shredder has here reached the level of the top 2 (chess programs, naturally)! Also a fat compliment after Dortmund. The calculation depth display was remarkable in addition (11-13 ply in the middlegame!) - what do you make of that?? That, despite this, in some games (round 1 against the Tasc R30, round 2 against Scratch [a modified The King 2.54] and above all against Rebel 7 in round 3), an inferior position came out, does not say much in my opinion, since this frequently depends on the chosen opening (which must not be badly chosen!). That that itself can be a major problem, is shown, for example, by the game against Hiarcs 6 on a power Mac (approximately 50 -100% faster than the K6 with 225 MHz!), which was consistenetly won from the opening on, without which Hiarcs would have had a real chance. Even if one could still make out weaknesses in the middlegame; the endgame, on the other hand, was in a class by itself. In this phase, Shredder 2.0 could still turn around a (probably) lost position (four times!!) (round 1-3, in each case, won, and round 7, drawn), once a dead drawn position wins (round 6), and once an unclear endgame adjudicates for itself! As if the opponents weren't even there -- I have never seen anything like it! Altogether, Shredder has earned fully (also in the height) the tournament championship and I therefore immediately entered it in the next tournament in March in Aufseß, and will operate it there again. In the final analysis, Shredder plays strategically-selective and very strong chess in the style of Genius, but in many cases more interestingly and also better! The games are enclosed. Karsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope this isn't too far off, kp
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