Author: Vine Smith
Date: 06:43:33 05/02/02
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On May 02, 2002 at 06:41:58, Steve Maughan wrote: >A business trip freed up my computer for 36 hours - so I decided to play a match >between Shredder 6.02 and Hiarcs 8 (game in 30 min, ponder off, 1.5 GHz P4). So >far Hiarcs has won, by a slim margin, all the matches I have played (Gambit >Tiger 2 and Fritz 7). This was the first one it lost! Shredder manager to beat >the new kid on the block by +13, -9, =17. The games are given below. > >A couple of comments. Firstly, this number of games does not prove that >Shredder is better than Hiarcs (even at the 90% confidence level). Secondly >there are quite a few draws - 17! I don't know for certain but I imagine that >Shredder and Hiarcs probably are close cousins in terms of playing strengths / >style which may be a factor in a higher draw count. I haven't had a chance to >go through the games so I can't comment on them but I post them for your >enjoyment! > >Regards, > >Steve Maughan > >========================================================================== [snip] >[Event "Durham Riding, Blitz:30'"] >[Site "Durham Riding"] >[Date "2002.04.30"] >[Round "12"] >[White "Shredder 6.02"] >[Black "Hiarcs 8"] >[Result "1-0"] >[ECO "C00"] >[TimeControl "1800"] >[PlyCount "143"] > >1. e4 e6 2. Qe2 Nc6 3. Nf3 Be7 4. d4 d5 5. e5 f6 6. Be3 fxe5 7. dxe5 Nh6 8. >Bxh6 gxh6 9. Nc3 O-O 10. O-O-O Bd7 11. Kb1 Be8 12. h4 Bb4 13. Qe3 Qe7 14. >h5 Rf5 15. Bd3 Rxh5 16. Rxh5 Bxh5 17. Qxh6 Bxf3 18. gxf3 Rf8 19. Ne2 Rf7 >20. c3 Bc5 21. f4 Bxf2 22. Rh1 Rg7 23. Rh5 a5 24. f5 exf5 25. e6 Ne5 26. >Bxf5 Ng6 27. Qd2 c6 28. Qh6 Nf8 29. Rh1 Rg5 30. Bd3 Be3 31. Qh3 Re5 32. Bf5 >h6 33. Qg3+ Qg7 34. Qh3 c5 35. Rf1 b5 36. Bg4 d4 37. Ka1 b4 38. cxd4 cxd4 >39. Ng3 Qc7 40. Nf5 Rxe6 41. Nxe3 Rxe3 42. Qxh6 Qe7 43. Be2 Nh7 44. Rg1+ >Kh8 45. Qg6 Nf6 46. Bd1 Rh3 47. Qg2 Rh7 48. Bc2 Rh4 49. Qg3 Rh6 50. Qb8+ >Qe8 51. Qd6 Qf7 52. Qxd4 Qf8 53. Bb3 Rh5 54. Qf4 Nd7 55. Bf7 Rh6 56. Kb1 >Nf6 57. Bc4 a4 58. Rg8+ Qxg8 59. Bxg8 Nxg8 60. Qxb4 Kg7 61. a3 Re6 62. Qxa4 >Nf6 63. Qa7+ Kg6 64. a4 Kf5 65. b4 Nd5 66. a5 Ke5 67. a6 Nb6 68. Qb8+ Kd4 >69. a7 Re1+ 70. Kc2 Na8 71. Qxa8 Re2+ 72. Kc1 1-0 [snip] One has to wonder exactly what kind of positional knowledge has been included in Hiarcs 8 for it to play the above game, which was the 12th in your series. First, its book gives out at move 3, when 3...e5, leaving White with a misplaced queen in a king's pawn game, is normal and instead gets a bad French with 3...Be7. Then it "solves" its development difficulties with 7...Nh6? and castles into the busted up kingside with 9...O-O? It's something of a miracle that it survived as long as it did -- too bad Smirin couldn't have studied this one before his match.
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