Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 15:02:29 07/10/02
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On July 10, 2002 at 17:40:38, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 10, 2002 at 17:02:21, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>on the official page, the game is still unpublished :-( >> >>it is quite strange that Junior won this game. Probably it was because of time >>problems, or because warp tried to win with force. >> >>As a big fan of Shredder, this is very annoying for me :-( > >As someone who is not a big fan of shredder and as someone from Israel >I am happy with the result. > >I do not like to see shredder wins again and again when it is clear from results >of the ssdf and other people who play comp-comp games that there is no big >difference between the level of shredder and the other top commercial >programs(shredder even seems to be slightly inferior relative to Fritz). > >I hope that programmers do something against the opening preperation of >shredder. > >I guess that at world championships shredder gets often positions that the >opponent does not know to play(for example it got in this tournament against >Junior position that Junior did not know to play). > >It is not the first time that it happens and I know about a previous case when >Junior blundered in the opening against shredder but fortunately it played well >enough to win a lost position(shredder lost a position that it evaluated as +5). > >It seems to me that it is not luck but opening preperation. > >Uri Do you know some details of shredders opening preparation? Have they an expert, who do the tuning of the opening book? I also think, that the top programs (Shredder, Junior, Fritz and maybe Tiger) are relatively equal, but Shredder did perform not bad in other competitions too: See: http://www.heise.de/ct/schachduell/ and: http://www.schlueters.de/heise/runde6.shtml Text is in german, but the results should be clear.
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