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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