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Subject: Re: Shredder - Hydra 1-0 (CSVN, 2004)

Author: Sandro Necchi

Date: 08:41:24 06/26/05

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On June 26, 2005 at 10:56:19, Peter Kappler wrote:

>On June 26, 2005 at 01:48:28, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>
>>On June 26, 2005 at 00:06:47, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>
>>>On June 25, 2005 at 20:42:42, Steve Glanzfeld wrote:
>>>
>>>>[Event "4th Intl.CSVN"]
>>>>[Site "Leiden NED"]
>>>>[Date "2004.04.24"]
>>>>[Round "5"]
>>>>[White "Shredder"]
>>>>[Black "Hydra"]
>>>>[Result "1-0"]
>>>>[ECO "B76"]
>>>>[PlyCount "61"]
>>>>[EventDate "2004.??.??"]
>>>>
>>>>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 d6 7. f3 Nf6 8. Qd2
>>>>O-O 9. O-O-O Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Be6 11. Kb1 Qc7 12. h4 Rfc8 13. h5 Qa5 14. h6 Bh8
>>>>15. a3 Nd7 16. f4 Bxd4 17. Qxd4 Nf6 18. f5 gxf5 19. Nd5 Bxd5 20. exd5 Qc5 21.
>>>>Qd3 Kh8 22. Qxf5 Rg8 23. Rh3 Qc8 24. Qf2 Qf8 25. Bd3 Rg5 26. Bf5 Qg8 27. g4 Qd8
>>>>28. Qe3 Rxg4 29. Bxg4 Nxg4 30. Qg5 Qg8 31. Qxe7 1-0
>>>>
>>>>http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=87303
>>>
>>>
>>>Hydra recently won an 8-game match, 5.5-2.5 against Shredder.  (A slower version
>>>of Hydra than the one Adams is facing.)
>>
>>I have already posted several times that the experimental Shredder version that
>>played against Hydra was heavely buggy (about 150 points weaker on long time
>>controls), so it would have lost the match against any strong engine too.
>>
>
>I must have missed these posts.  Can you provide a few positions from the match
>where the current Shredder 9 plays a different move from the experimental
>version that lost to Hydra?

One is more than enough:

look game 6th when Shredder gave a piece for 2 pawns and lost the game. No
Shredder commercial version would play that move at any level.

Sandro

>
>-Peter
>
>
>>
>>This means that we cannot use this match to compare Shredder with Hydra.
>>
>>
>>Sandro
>>>
>>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1875
>>>
>>>
>>>-Peter



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