Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 12:13:48 05/11/03
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On May 11, 2003 at 15:08:58, Uri Blass wrote:
>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
Hi Uri
Many thanks for this information. I was not aware of this.
Kurt
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