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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 vs. Tiger 2004

Author: Chessfun

Date: 21:53:12 10/23/04

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On October 23, 2004 at 06:07:54, Ingo Bauer wrote:

>Hello
>
>Intension of this match was to get a FIRST impression of the new Tiger 2004!
>
>Matchconditions:
>
>1. ONE Athlon XP @ 2500 MHz (ca. P4 - 3400)
>2. Ponder off
>3. 192 MB Hash for each Engine
>4. all 3,4 and 5 pcs Tablebases with 64 MB Cache for each Engine
>5. Connected via Autoplayer - Network
>6. Chess Tiger 2004
>6.1	Style Normal
>6.2	Book: CT.ctk
>6.2.1	        Bookvariants at 50% (default)
>6.2.2		Booklern at 50% (default)
>6.3	Chesspartner 5.3.0.47 GUI
>6.4	Master-Autoplayer / Extended and Fast on
>7. Shredder 8 UCI
>7.1	Book: Shredder8a.bkt
>7.1.1		Turniermodus
>7.1.2		Resultlearning on
>7.1.3		Booklearning on
>7.1.4		Everything else at default
>7.2	Shredder Classic 1.1 GUI
>7.3	Autoplayer slave / Extended and Fast on
>8. ALL lerning deleted prior to the match
>9. ALL learning ON during the match
>10. 50 Games
>11. Game in 15 minutes plus 10 seconds each move
>
>
>Result: 31.5 - 18.5 for Shredder 8 (+92 Elo)
>
>50 +20 =23 -7    63.0%   TP = +92 Elo    68%->[+58,+133]   95%->[+25,+177]
>99.7%->[-6,+228]
>
>
>Remark:
>
>Average time per game was 48 minutes. The setting for Shredder where optimal,
>maybe there is a possibility to improve some settings inside the chesspartner
>GUI, maybe the time control did not "fit" to Tiger, maybe the number of draws
>would rise if the time control would be longer ... I consider the 92 Elos as the
>worst possible result, the real gap between the engines might be smaller!
>
>Have a look at game no. 34. The 15th move is the first out of book by Shredder.
>I consider this as a hole in the Tiger 2004 book!

>[Event "15 Minutes/Game + 10 Seconds/Move"]
>[Site "T2004-S8"]
>[Date "2004.10.22"]
>[Round "34"]
>[White "Shredder 8"]
>[Black "Chess Tiger 2004 Normal Style"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5
>e6 7. f4 Nbd7 8. Qf3 Qc7 9. O-O-O b5 10. Bd3 Bb7 11. Rhe1
>Be7 12. Nd5 exd5 13. Nf5 Kf8 14. exd5 Re8 15. Nxg7 Kxg7
>16. Qg3 Nh5 17. Qg4 f6 18. Bh4+ Kf8 19. Qxh5 h6 20. Bf5 Qc4
>21. Bxd7 Rc8 22. Bxc8 Qxf4+ 23. Kb1 Bxc8 24. Rxe7 Kxe7
>25. Bg3 Qb4 26. Qg6 Qc5 27. Qg7+ Kd8 28. Qxh8+ Kc7 29. Qxf6
>Bg4 30. Bf2 Qc4 31. b3 Qe4 32. Re1 Qxd5 33. Re8 Qe6
>34. Qd8+ Kc6 35. Qa8+ Kc7 36. Rb8 Qc8 37. Qa7+ Kc6
>38. Rxc8+ Bxc8 39. Qe7 a5 40. Bg3 Bf5 41. Qxd6+ Kb7
>42. Qc7+ Ka6 43. Bf2 Bxc2+ 44. Kxc2 h5 45. Qc6# 1-0


Indeed an interesting game. As you know Tiger shows 14...Re8 as book. Clearly
this move losses to 15. Nxg7.

Tiger actually wants to play 14...Bd8 which it scores as +2.16 depth 15.

Personally I don't like the time control and I don't know if this version has
issues with the "inc" or not.

I can tell you I ran a lot of games v Shredder 8 at 40/40 with the following
results:

AMD XP 2600, ERT. Tiger 96 mb standard book. Shredder 8 104 Mb 2600.bk. 3, 4 and
5 piece bases 32mb.

ChessTiger 2004 gambit v Shredder 8
+7 -6 =15

ChessTiger 2004 normal v Shredder 8
+7 -14 =19

Sarah.



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