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Subject: Re: Important: Never use WB-adapter of May 2001 with Shredder5 under CB-GUI

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 23:02:10 09/16/01

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On September 16, 2001 at 17:06:14, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On September 16, 2001 at 15:24:59, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
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>>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:
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>>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'
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>>These results look very realistic since Shredder5 does not feel comfortabel on
>>the slow hardware.
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>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

Hi Christophe

Well, frankly spoken, I cannot say for sure that The King is stronger than
Shredder5, because the number of games is still too small.
Kurt
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>>Important conclusion: NEVER USE THE WB-ADAPTER OF 23TH MAY 2001 WHEN PLAYING
>>WITH SHREDDER5 UNDER THE CB-GUI.
>>
>>Regards
>>Kurt



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