Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:16:38 09/17/01
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On September 17, 2001 at 02:02:10, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>On September 16, 2001 at 17:06:14, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>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
>
>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
Well said, that's exactly what I wanted to point out.
Christophe
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