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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 vs Alexei Shirov blitz game (fun) minimatch. Test move.

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 18:14:46 05/10/04

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On May 10, 2004 at 17:45:29, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

>On May 10, 2004 at 16:19:01, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>AWsome ! thanks very much for posting this game
>>
>>do you have the other games for posting, and are you surprised that S8 won?
>>do you know what hardware it was using aswell?
>
>
>  Yes I have all the games that were played that night, here i post them for
>anybody who wants to take a look at this interesting fight.
>
>  Well, I'm not much surprised by the fact that Shredder 8 won but I'm more
>surprised because GM Shirov was unable to win a single game out of 13 that were
>played! Well, I expected the computer to win from the beginning since playing
>blitz is a great disadvantage for the human player, but since GM Alexey Shirov
>is a top 10 player and excellent blitzer i doubted that Shredder 8 could win so
>convincingly.
>
>  Not more than 2 years ago, many computer chess fans would have said that
>Shredder was not a very good chess program for playing fast games, but nowadays
>I believe it is one of the best, even better than Fritz, usually stronger at
>this short time controls. Nevertheless, my favorite program is still Junior :)
>
>  I don't know what hardware was used, but i think Dreamland works with a single
>processor (2-3 Ghz).
>
>
>                                             Pablo

I am not surprised, there is only so much a human brain can do in 3 minutes, its
hard to beat something that only makes positional mistakes and not tactical ones



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