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Subject: Re: World Champion defeated by russian program

Author: Paul Doire

Date: 10:24:34 01/23/01

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On January 23, 2001 at 11:51:44, Peter Berger wrote:

>On January 23, 2001 at 07:53:53, Vladimir Sokolov wrote:
>
>>After reception of Millenium 2001 packet we tested immediately.
>>There is a weakness in the tactics of Shredder 5.0 and my program find the
>>weakness and use it. It is simple weakness but if anybody sees the weakness.
>>In small tournament of 5 games, in 4 games without interruption Shredder was
>>defeated with Auto232 between 2 computers of each AMD Athlon T-bird 1.2 mhz /
>>1024 ram with Asus A7V ATX multi motherboard at 40 moves in 2 hours with each
>>own book, hash 256 Mb and all tablebases 3-4-5
>>Maybe next year in international championship my private program also if the
>>airplane is not expensive.
>>The 5 games pgn files of small tournament are available at request to my E mail.
>>
>>Vladimir
>
>Wow , didn't you get some unfriendly answers ;-) ?
>
>Just to mention : nowhere in this post is anything said that claims this Russian
>program is stronger than Shredder .


BTW the title says it all.
Paul
>
>It is also obvious that the Author's native language is not English : maybe a
>little tolerance would be nice sometimes ...
>
>As I see it in a short private test Shredder lost 4 consecutive games by what
>seems to be a pattern to the observer and the author was excited and posted. I
>am looking forward to see this program play in a tournament ; there are not
>_that_ many programs that can do this trick ( and please no statistics lesson ,
>guys :-) ) .
>
>pete



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