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Subject: Re: Amusing game - Shredder 5 is +4.68 up against GT and goes on to lose!!

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 17:57:48 12/15/00

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On December 15, 2000 at 18:58:42, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 15, 2000 at 18:52:25, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On December 15, 2000 at 12:37:36, Laurence Chen wrote:
>>
>>>On December 14, 2000 at 20:31:56, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 14, 2000 at 13:18:47, Steve Maughan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I don't think I've ever seen such a wide margin diminish to defeat!
>>>><snip>
>>>>
>>>>I have only had Shredder for 4 days but I saw this type of behavior a lot at
>>>>blitz on an Athlon 900 Mhz.  Even at G/30 this seems to happen.  At G/60 on an
>>>>Athlon 900 it has not showed up yet.  That's why I made the comment earlier
>>>>"Shredder a mudder".  Refering to the fact that Shredder seems to like the
>>>>slower time controls with faster hardware.  I suspect there are a lot of holes
>>>>in it's eval that can only be covered up with deeper searches.  Just my opinion
>>>>based on 4 days. :-)
>>>>Jim
>>>I had Shredder 5 for a 3 days, and I came with the same conclusion.  The
>>>evaluations of Shredder changes as it digs deeper, which means that one way to
>>>help Shredder is to use the fastest computer available, and slower time control.
>>>Regards,
>>>Laurence
>>
>>The evaluation of all programs is changed when they get deeper.
>>There are holes in the evaluations of all chess programs.
>>
>>If you find that the evaluation of Shredder is changed more than other program
>>then it still does not prove that there are bigger holes in Shredder's
>>evaluation because it is possible to explain it by other reasons.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I can add that the +4.68 was not a hole in Shredder's evaluation because
>Shredder had a clearly better position when it evaluated itself as +4.68
>
>Uri

Hello Uri,
Well without an indepth analysis I can only say I don't know of any other
programs I have that will lose a game after being up by +4.68.  I have seen
several draw after that kind of score and it usually is because they believe
they can win with a minor piece and pawn when it is only a draw.  It seems to me
that Shredder missed something big somewhere.  Something most top programs would
not miss.
Jim



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