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Subject: Re: Fritz 8008 Test [40'/40] vs Ruffian 1.0.1 [after 250 games]

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:08:58 05/11/03

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On May 11, 2003 at 14:55:39, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On May 11, 2003 at 14:46:58, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On May 11, 2003 at 14:19:13, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>The only program that can score positive against Shredder7 and 7.04 is Deep
>>>Fritz 7.
>>
>>
>>I suggest that you try hiarcs8 at time control of x minutes/999 moves.
>>
>>If you do not like blitz use x=120.
>>The fact that shredder is not going to use most of it's time is only shredder's
>>fault.
>>
>>Uri
>
>    Hi Uri
>    It's always the same story: people try to find a opponent at blitz level
>    to beat Shredder704. But this does not count much and the most important
>    world chess championship does not run at this time control.
>    Kurt

The point is that shredder does not use it's time in x minutes/999 moves when
hiarcs does it(at least 7.32 and I guess that also 8) and it is practically the
same as giving the opponent more time.

If you want to beat shredder then you need to take advantage of it's weakness
and the only big weakness that I know is bad time management of that type of
time control.

This is also a weakness of most chess engines but there are some engines without
this weakness(Hiarcs,Movei are 2 examples).

I do not suggest movei because it has other big weaknesses and I am afraid it is
going to lose even when shredder is at 1:10 time handicap(I did not test latest
version but previous version scored less than 50% against shredder in my tests
at 5 minutes/999 moves and I also found that shredder7.04 beated Ruffian1.01
13-11 in my tests with time handicap of 3:1(I used
some positions like 1.e4 e5, 1.e4 c5 and palying without book after it
and I gave shredder 5 minutes against Ruffian's 15 minutes).

Uri



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