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Subject: Re: How does the new Shredder do against Humans

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 21:06:30 02/18/05

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On February 18, 2005 at 22:55:10, Jay Urbanski wrote:

>On February 17, 2005 at 21:00:34, George C Williams wrote:
>
>>There was talk in the past about shredder 8 not being the top against humans,
>>however i've noticed that the new shredder 9 has a more aggressive approach and
>>seems to attack the king well, has anyone noticed any improvement in it's play
>>vs humans. Ofcourse I get beat everygame, but I was wondering if there are
>>masters out there that can add anything useful, or strong experts .
>
>Unfortunately humans who want to draw (or win on time) against Shredder 9 by
>building pawn blockades can still do so trivially.   Play "Father" sometime on
>playchess.com and find out.  Engine settings don't make much difference.

Are you sure that changing time usage from 100 to 25 does not help to prevent
losses on time?

I do not play against humans with shredder and I only use common sense.

Uri



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