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Subject: Re: Fruit - Shredder and 30 min blitz

Author: Norm Pollock

Date: 05:30:18 06/23/05

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On June 23, 2005 at 07:03:14, Bigler wrote:

>Hi !
>
>I finished a match between Shredder 9 vs Fruit 2.1 on my AMD 64-3500+
>1 hour per player.
>
>result is :
>
>Shredder 9 = 5
>Fruit 2.1 = 5
>
>I havent analysed the games yet, but in a few positions, I find that fruit made
>realy strange moves, positionnaly bad moves.
>
>So I was suprised that Fruit made 5 points against Shredder.
>
>I will post the games asap.
>
>rgds

My guess is that it has something to do with the aggressive pruning. In order to
search deeper than its opponent, it has to summarily disregard many lines that
"appear" to be unimportant. But every once in awhile an overlooked line causes
it to lose the game. So it's like lose 1 in order to win 5.




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