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Subject: Your setup must have been awful. Theres nothing wrong with Shredder 8!

Author: Anson T J

Date: 07:40:23 01/20/04

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On January 19, 2004 at 07:42:54, John Griffin wrote:

>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
>*


Move 28. Rc5? Maybe your hash was too high which caused too little CPU
utilisation.

Heres my output for this position
[d]r3r1k1/q4ppp/B1p1n3/p4R2/4P3/P1Q2PB1/6PP/5RK1 w - - 0 28

New game
r3r1k1/q4ppp/B1p1n3/p4R2/4P3/P1Q2PB1/6PP/5RK1 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Shredder 8:

1.Rc5 Qxc5+ 2.Qxc5 Nxc5
  =  (0.03)   Depth: 1/2   00:00:00
1.Rc5 Qxc5+ 2.Qxc5 Nxc5
  -+  (-2.40)   Depth: 1/4   00:00:00
1.Rc5 Qxc5+ 2.Qxc5 Nxc5
  -+  (-2.40)   Depth: 1/4   00:00:00
1.Kh1 Qxa6 2.Rd1 g6 3.Rf6 Rad8 4.Bd6
  ±  (0.99)   Depth: 1/4   00:00:00
1.Kh1 Qxa6 2.Rd1 c5 3.Rfd5 Qe2 4.Rd7
  ±  (0.99)   Depth: 1/7   00:00:00
1.Kh1 Qxa6 2.Rd1 c5 3.Rfd5 Qe2 4.Rd7
  ±  (0.93)   Depth: 2/2   00:00:00
1.Kh1 Qxa6 2.Rd1 c5 3.Rfd5 Qe2 4.R5d2 Qb5
  ±  (0.93)   Depth: 3/3   00:00:00
1.Kh1 Qxa6 2.Rd1 Red8 3.Qxa5 Rxd1+ 4.Qe1
  ±  (0.93)   Depth: 4/4   00:00:00
1.Kh1 Qxa6 2.Rd1 Red8 3.Qxa5 Rxd1+ 4.Qe1
  ±  (0.93)   Depth: 5/8   00:00:00
1.Kh1 Qxa6 2.Rd1 Red8 3.Qxa5 Rxd1+ 4.Qe1 Rxe1+ 5.Bxe1 Qxa3 6.Rxf7
  ²  (0.68)   Depth: 6/6   00:00:00
1.Kh1 Qxa6 2.Rd1 Red8 3.Rxa5 Rxd1+ 4.Be1 Qxa5 5.Qxa5
  ²  (0.68)   Depth: 6/12   00:00:00
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.Rxa5 Qxa5 3.Qxg7+ Nxg7
  ²  (0.69)   Depth: 6/12   00:00:00
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.Rc1 g6 3.Rf6 Rac8 4.Rd1
  ±  (0.90)   Depth: 6/12   00:00:00
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.Rb1 Red8 3.Bb6 Qd3 4.Kf2 Qxc3
  ±  (0.81)   Depth: 7/15   00:00:00  82kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.Rb1 Red8 3.Bb6 Qd3 4.Qxg7+ Kxg7 5.Rxf7+ Kxf7
  ²  (0.56)   Depth: 8/16   00:00:00  146kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.Rb1 Red8 3.a4 Rd3 4.Qe5 Rd2 5.Qc3
  ²  (0.56)   Depth: 8/16   00:00:00  172kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.Rb1 Red8 3.Bb6 Rd3 4.Qc1 Nd4 5.Bxd4 Rxd4
  ²  (0.56)   Depth: 9/17   00:00:00  318kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.Rb1 Red8 3.Bb6 Rd3 4.Qc1 Nd4 5.Bxd4 Rxd4 6.Qc5 Qc4 7.Rb6 Qxc5
8.Rxc5
  ²  (0.44)   Depth: 10/17   00:00:00  527kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.Rb1 Red8 3.Bb6 Rd3 4.Qc1 Nd4 5.Bxd4 Rxd4 6.Qc5 Qc4 7.Rb6 Qxc5
8.Rxc5
  ²  (0.52)   Depth: 11/19   00:00:01  812kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.Rb1 g6 3.Rf6 Red8 4.Qe1 Rab8 5.Rxb8 Rxb8 6.Qc1 Qe2 7.Be3 Rb2 8.Qxc6
  ²  (0.37)   Depth: 12/27   00:00:02  1785kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.Bh4 a4 3.Re1 Qb6+ 4.Kh1 Qb3 5.Rxf7 Qxc3 6.Rxg7+ Kxg7 7.Bf6+ Qxf6
  =  (0.14)   Depth: 13/29   00:00:07  5856kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.a4 g6 3.Rf6 Rad8 4.Qc2 c5 5.Rc1 c4 6.Kh1 Qc6 7.Be1 Qc5 8.Qxc4 Qg1+
  =  (0.17)   Depth: 14/32   00:00:22  17245kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.a4 g6 3.Rf6 Rad8 4.f4 Rd7 5.Qc1 Qd3 6.Qxc6 Nd4 7.Rxg6+ hxg6 8.f5
Nxc6
  =  (0.02)   Depth: 15/35   00:00:29  23101kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.a4 Red8 3.Qa1 g6 4.Rf6 Qe2 5.Re1 Qc2 6.Rc1 Qe2 7.Re1 Qc2 8.Rc1 Qe2
9.Re1 Qc2
  =  (0.02)   Depth: 16/38   00:00:47  36454kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.a4 Red8 3.Re1 Rd3 4.Qb2 g6 5.Rf6 Rad8 6.Qb6 Qa8 7.Rxf7 Kxf7 8.Qxa5
  =  (0.01)   Depth: 17/39   00:01:15  56900kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.a4 g6 3.Re5 f6 4.Rc5 Nxc5 5.Bxc5 Kf7 6.Qxf6+ Kxf6 7.Be7+ Rxe7 8.e5+
Kxe5 9.Re1+ Qe2 10.Rc1
  =  (0.00)   Depth: 18/43   00:02:57  131536kN
1.Bf2 Qxa6 2.a4 Red8 3.Rb1 Rd3 4.Qe1 Ra3 5.Ra1 Rxa1 6.Qxa1 g6 7.Rf6 Qe2 8.Bb6 c5
9.Qc1 Rd8
  =  (-0.01)   Depth: 19/47   00:04:44  208341kN

It only has Rc5 as the best move during ply 1 and rejects it before finishing
the search at that depth.

In my tests so far, Shredder 8 is beating Deep Fritz 8 in 3 minute games

S8, Blitz:3'  0

1   Shredder 8   90.0/160  56.25% +43 ELO
2   Deep Fritz 8 70.0/160  43.75% -43 ELO

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