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Subject: Re: Shredder download (free). Looks great! why?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:32:33 01/29/05

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On January 29, 2005 at 21:10:59, Ingo Bauer wrote:

>On January 29, 2005 at 21:04:18, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>Sorry! this game was indeed very brilliant, and I can really sense the wisdom in
>>the Shredder engine.
>>I'm afraid, however, that the possibility of sending this game to the forum is
>>not available without purchasing the program first, it seems.
>>But it might finally be the engine to satisfy me! We'll see if it also tops the
>>ssdf etc. If so, that's it.
>>1.e4   e5
>>2.nf3  nc6
>>3.Bb5  a6
>>4.Ba4  Nf6
>>5.0-0 Nxe4
>>6.d4  d5
>>7.Bb3 d5
>>8.Re1  Be6
>>9.dxe5 Be7
>>10.c3  0-0
>>11.Nd4 Nxd4
>>12.cxd4 Bh4
>>13.g3  Be7
>>14.Rxe4
>>There it is!
>>Then I gave over the White position to see if Shredder could find the best moves
>>after this (against itself), and it handled it most grandmasterly both
>>tactically and strtegically, and won for white, convincingly, and that, after
>>black made complications which a normal human master might not have survived.
>> Don't worry! after Black had provoked the weakening 13.g3 from white, Black
>>managed to get the Queen to h3 and it's bishop to e4, threatening mate. But
>>white managed to cope with that, WITHOUT losing its own attack. Only top human
>>Gm's might have succeeded in that, the way Shredder did.
>>S.Taylor
>
>Hi
>
>This is NOT Shredder 9. This is the "old" Shredder Classic GUI 1.1 with the
>Shredder Classic 1.1 engine. This Engine is approx. 150 - 100 Elo weaker then S8
>and you are allready happy!
>
>Immagine what you could do with S9 :-) where the "new" Classic GUI 1.2 is
>delivered with.

I admit I was unable to judge that this was so much weaker than even the
Shredder 8, but what it did for me here looked impressive to me, and I hope that
is only even more like that in what's becoming available now.
Obviously it takes scientific testing.
e.g. who knows if the ability of Black (in continuation of above game) to have
got that mating threat, was in fact the best line? It looked impressive, as did
White refutation, but perhaps Black could have done something stronger in which
White's play would have required even more wisdom!
>
>Btw: the Classic GUI and Engine is running for 30 days to test it.
>
>Bye
>Ingo

So why is this one running now?

S.Taylor



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