Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:06:14 09/16/01
Go up one level in this thread
On September 16, 2001 at 15:24:59, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>The recently published match result of 17.0-3.0 between TheKing 3.12 Utz10b vs
>Shredder5 UCI played under ChessBase-GUI [40/40' on K6-2 533/32 MB hash] was
>titled as sensational but a lot of people guessed there would something be
>wrong. Although 95-98 % of the moves could be reproduced in the analysis mode
>under the Shredder5-GUI the severe loss of Shredder5 seemed suspect. Mogens
>Larsen assumed a problem with the WinBoard adapter used. And after all, I must
>say he was right. I had played the match with the WB-adapter of 24th May 2001
>and this one should never be used with Shredder5 under CB-GUI.
>
>I repeated the match, this time using the WB-adapter of 23th November 2000 and
>obtained the following results:
>
>P3 650/32 MB hash: TheKing 3.12 Utz10b - Shredder5 [10.5-9.5] 40/40'
>K6-2 533/32 MB HT: TheKing 3.12 Utz10b - Shredder5 [11.5-8.5] 40'40'
>
>These results look very realistic since Shredder5 does not feel comfortabel on
>the slow hardware.
A naive question: why don't you just assume that The King is stronger than
Shredder instead of calling for some obscure reason related to time controls?
Christophe
>Important conclusion: NEVER USE THE WB-ADAPTER OF 23TH MAY 2001 WHEN PLAYING
>WITH SHREDDER5 UNDER THE CB-GUI.
>
>Regards
>Kurt
This page took 0.01 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.