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Subject: Re: Horrible playing by Shredder 8

Author: John Griffin

Date: 08:57:00 01/19/04

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On January 19, 2004 at 07:42:54, John Griffin wrote:
I was using the chessbase version.


>I left Shredder 8 running yesterday at FICS to test it out and see how it would
>do and when I came back I was shocked it had lost 10 games straight to Shredder
>7.04 playing on an AMD 2200+ and the hardware I was using was 2x AMD 2000+ and I
>decided to examine some of the games and it seemed that Shredder was just giving
>pieces away for free and playing really weird I have 4 games out of the 10 to
>show how bad it was playing is it a bug or something causing it to play like
>this? has anyone else experienced this type of thing aswell? any info will be
>appreciated. Thanks
>
>[Event "ICS Rated blitz match"]
>[Site "freechess.org"]
>[Date "2004.01.19"]
>[Round "Shredder 7.04"]
>[White "Shredder 8"]
>[Black ""]
>[Result "*"]
>[WhiteElo "2575"]
>[BlackElo "2647"]
>[TimeControl "180+2"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Bf4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bb4+ 6. Nbd2 Qe7 7. a3
>Ngxe5 8. Nxe5 Nxe5 9. e3 Bxd2+ 10. Qxd2 d6 11. Be2 O-O 12. O-O b6 13. b4
>Bb7 14. Qc3 Ng6 15. Bg3 Nh4 16. c5 dxc5 17. bxc5 Nf5 18. Bf4 bxc5 19. Rac1
>Nh4 20. f3 Ng6 21. Bg3 Rfe8 22. e4 c6 23. Qe3 Nf8 24. Rxc5 Ne6 25. Rf5 a5
>26. Qc3 Ba6 27. Bxa6 Qa7+ 28. Rc5 Nxc5 29. Bf2 Nxe4 30. Bxa7 Nxc3 31. Re1
>Rxe1+ 32. Kf2 Rc1 33. Ke3 Nb1
>*
>
>[Event "ICS Rated blitz match"]
>[Site "freechess.org"]
>[Date "2004.01.19"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "Shredder 7.04"]
>[Black "Shredder 8"]
>[Result "*"]
>[WhiteElo "2653"]
>[BlackElo "2569"]
>[TimeControl "180+2"]
>
>1. d4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. c4 Bg7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Nh3 d6 7. d5 Nbd7 8.
>O-O Ne5 9. b3 c5 10. Bb2 Nfg4 11. Qd2 Bd7 12. Ng5 Qa5 13. Rad1 Rae8 14. h3
>Nf6 15. e3 h6 16. Ne6 Bxe6 17. dxe6 Kh7 18. Qc2 Nc6 19. a3 Nd8 20. Nd5 Nxe6
>21. b4 Qd8 22. Nxf6+ Bxf6 23. Bxf6 Rxf6 24. Qa4 cxb4 25. axb4 a5 26. bxa5
>Nc5 27. Qb5 Qb6
>*
>*
>
>[Event "ICS Rated blitz match"]
>[Site "freechess.org"]
>[Date "2004.01.19"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "Shredder 8"]
>[Black "Shredder 7.04"]
>[Result "*"]
>[WhiteElo "2563"]
>[BlackElo "2659"]
>[TimeControl "180+2"]
>
>1. c4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Bf4 Nf6 4. e3 Bf5 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Qb6 7. Qc1 Be7 8.
>Be2 O-O 9. O-O Nbd7 10. c5 Qd8 11. Qd1 Ne4 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Ne5 Nxe5 14.
>Bxe5 Bf6 15. Bg3 Qd5 16. Qc2 Qd7 17. a4 Rad8 18. a5 a6 19. Qb3 Rfe8 20. Ra4
>e5 21. dxe5 Bxe5 22. Rd1 Be6 23. Rxd7 Bxb3 24. Rxd8 Rxd8 25. Rb4 Bd1 26.
>Bxe5 Bxe2 27. Rxb7 Rd1#
>*
>
>[Event "ICS Rated blitz match"]
>[Site "freechess.org"]
>[Date "2004.01.19"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "Shredder 8"]
>[Black "Shredder 7.04"]
>[Result "*"]
>[WhiteElo "2531"]
>[BlackElo "2691"]
>[TimeControl "180+2"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 e6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 a6 6. g3 Qc7 7. Bg2 Nf6 8.
>O-O Be7 9. Re1 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Bc5 11. Qd1 d6 12. Be3 e5 13. Bxc5 Qxc5 14.
>Qd2 O-O 15. Qe3 Qc6 16. Rad1 Be6 17. Qd3 Rad8 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. exd5 Qc5 20.
>Re2 Ng4 21. b4 Qb6 22. a3 a5 23. bxa5 Qxa5 24. Rb1 Qa7 25. Bh3 f5 26. Bxg4
>fxg4 27. Qf5 Rxf5 28. Rb6 Qxb6 29. Re3 Qxe3
>*



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