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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 game for K. Burcham

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 22:06:04 06/13/04

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On June 14, 2004 at 00:42:00, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 14, 2004 at 00:18:08, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>Hi there, i read your post about Petrovich vs S8, and you wondered if 'prefer
>>open positions' was selected that it would do better,
>>
>>well i did that, vs a guy named FAther on playchess server, he's well known for
>>making a stone wall defence, HOWEVER in addition to that, i also made another
>>tweek to the personality, changing these things
>>
>>King Safety 94
>>pawn structure 96
>>pawn structure (endgame) 96
>>
>>this combined with the open setting allowed Shredder 8 to....draw,
>>actually a lose, because it was a 5min game and he would have won on time,
>
>I do not see how can white win on time against a chess program unless you play
>manually but chess programs were not made to play manually.
>
>I think that black is winning and shredder's evaluation is correct.
>
>Black has a rook for a knight so I guess that the 50 move rule can convince
>black to push the pawns forward and even sacrifice a pawn if it is needed and
>win the game.
>
>Uri

Father routeenly wins against dual xeon and opetron systems,

he wins on time, he just moves his king back and forth, and the program runs out
of time, and loses

he's famous for that on playchess
makes everyone get really pissed, but it works



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