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Subject: Re: Shredder

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 12:50:53 08/28/00

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On August 28, 2000 at 15:39:32, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>On August 28, 2000 at 12:11:03, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>>
>>I am back in Germany and would like to thank everybody who supported me and
>>helped me winning this title. Also thanks to my fellow programmers for the nice
>>and fair competition in London. I have received many nice words recently, also
>>thanks for this.
>>
>>I guess I have to leave the academy awards mode now :-)
>>
>>I am quite satisfied with the games Shredder played in London. I had some nice
>>wins and Shredder played very strong in the endgame allowing to draw some bad
>>positions. I was probably lucky in a few games but without luck you can’t win
>>such a strong competition.
>>
>>If somebody has more questions about Shredder in London I will try to answer
>>them here.
>>
>>Stefan
>
>Hello Stefan,
>
>Congratulations (another) !

Thanks

>Shredder`s statitic is fantastic:
>
>WM 1995, 13/34, 6.0/11
>Aegon 1996, 3.0/6
>WM 1996, 1/27, 9,5/11, World Champion
>WM 1997, 3/34, 7.5/11
>Aegon 1997, 2.5/6
>IPCCC 1998, 2/16, 5.5/7
>IPCCC 1999, 4/14, 4.5/7
>WMCCC 1999, 1/30, 5.5/7, World Champion
>CCT1 2000, 2/22
>IPCCC 2000, 1/16, 6.0/7, IPCCC Master
>WMCCC 2000, 1/14, 7.0/9, World Champion

Thanks for this, I have almost forgotten some of them.
Where did you get this statistics from?

>
>Your last lost game against Gandalf (IPCCC `99 in
>Paderborn).

Yes, this was a horrible game of Shredder. It played fxg6 instead of hxg6 and
ruined his pawn structure. I still remember this very well.

> In my eyes very impressive that
>Shredder plays now 3 tournaments without 1 lost
>game.
>
>My question:
>Do you have interest to play games against GMs
>or better Grandmaster tournaments. I wish me to see
>your program in TOP GM tournaments.

Yes, I have great interest in this!

Stefan



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