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Subject: Re: SmarThink vs Shredder Paderborn ended W8 D5 L7

Author: Ralph Patriquin

Date: 10:38:50 06/10/03

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On June 10, 2003 at 06:41:17, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On June 10, 2003 at 06:31:05, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On June 10, 2003 at 01:06:43, Ralph Patriquin wrote:
>>
>>>On June 09, 2003 at 03:25:29, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?299865
>>>>
>>>>http://talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?299919
>>>
>>>
>>>Have you looked at all the games? They seem to be a little short on average
>>>compared to the typical computer game. I haven't looked at all of them, but in
>>>particluar game 3 doesn't look right. Shredder marches his king right out into a
>>>mating net which is easy for a computer to see. My Shredder Paderborn simply
>>>will not play those moves. Maybe a problem with your engine-engine match setup?
>>>
>>>Ralph
>>
>>I noticed the same same specially game three, the only explanation that I have
>>for this is that Fritz8.ctg is too deep and since both programs are using
>>Fritz8.ctg or opening book if they follow the cook line it is hard to walk out
>>of a mating net, any other program like fritz 8 can avoid getting out of the
>>mating net, but only to continue with an inferior game. The setting that i used
>>is both used the same fritz8.ctg, both programs 64 MB Hash and pondenring off.
>>
>>PS: I also set the same position of game 3 using Shredder 6 to see if the move
>>chosen was different but using the same time control shredder 6 also walked into
>>a mating net. I don't see any reason to continue an inferior game out of the
>>opening if the endgame will give you the same result. But yes this was something
>>that caught my attention too.
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>You are welcome to match shredder 6 against SmarThink using the same time
>control to see if shredder 6 performs better than Shredder Paderborn. I was
>going to do that, but i decided to match SmarThink against Fritz 8 version 8.008
>under the same condiction and SmarThink is playing a la par after 4 games so
>far, I will post them later. If I increase the size of the Hash to 128 it might
>affect SmarThink, but i will keep testing it under the same condiction for
>comparison reason. I beileve that later on Fritz 8 will take the lead being much
>stronger than shredder Paderborn or Hiarcs.
>
>Pichard.

Well, I ran some experiments. These on P4 2.26 GHz 256MB RAM 40'/40+40'/40+40':


Shredder 6.02 32MB Hash

21... Rd8 22.Rxd8+ 2:07 Kxd8 23.Qd3+ 3:05


Shredder 6.02 64MB Hash

21... Rd8 22.Rxd8+ 2:58 Kxd8 23.Qd3+ 2:11


Shredder 6.02 128MB Hash

21... Rd8 22.Rxd8+ 2:54 Kxd8 23.Qd3+ 3:23


I also forced the game continuation:


Shredder 6.02 32MB Hash

22.Kd2 Qa5+ 23.Kc1 2:58


Shredder 6.02 64MB Hash

22.Kd2 Qa5+ 23.Kc1 2:15


Shredder 6.02 128MB Hash

22.Kd2 Qa5+ 23.Kc1 5:10


Although 22.Kd2 is not a good move, the horrible blunder is 23.Kd3??. As you can
see, I cannot reproduce it. My Shredder score quickl goes to ~ -6.00 after this
move.

Ralph



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