Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 09:58:35 10/01/99
What's the big deal? At http://www.computerchess.com/news_e.html The following position is reached; 8/8/3b1k2/5P2/2NPK3/1P5p/8/8 w - - 0 76 Karpov played the truly awful, 76.Kf3?, and is met by the nice 76...Bf4!, which is certainly nice for a chess puzzle type of question, "what is White's only way of allowing Black to save the game?" instead of 76.Ne3 (...h2 77.Ng4+), which is still winning. In fact there were some other positons in the game where (I think 54.Qg6 instead 54.Ng6+ was recommended), White maybe could win more quickly. So yet another evidence of Karpov losing the 'World champion Karpov' touch, just this time against a good chess program on fast hardware. Still I would hardly call this a game that Shredder's maker's should be particularly proud of. Larry - the chess software addict! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Computerchess page; 11.07.1999 The duel of World Champions ANATOLY KARPOV draws against Computer World Champion SHREDDER ! Dortmund, 9.7.1999: For the first time ever a standard PC program challenged a world champion under tournament conditions. Much to the surprise of many grandmasters and chess experts, reigning world champion Anatoly Karpov didn’t manage to beat the commercial chess program SHREDDER (retailing for DM 199). What an achievement for the extremely gifted German programmer Stefan Meyer-Kahlen (31), who deservedly became computer chess world champion a few weeks ago in Paderborn. This outstanding success was even more remarkable, given the fact that his SHREDDER program played there as well as in Dortmund on a standard Pentium III 550 MHz computer - affordable for every chess friend - against super-powered megacomputers (with up to 256 processors!) from allover the world. Yet SHREDDER managed to stay the only one unbeaten in a strong field of 30 competitors. (Even commercial programs like Fritz or Junior entered the competition on powerful multi-processor servers, costing more than 100.000 DM.) Unlike other recent tournaments this was not one of the usual 30-minute rapid games (where even the best humans have barely a chance nowadays). On the elegant stage of Dortmund opera house the two world champions challenged each other under tournament-like conditions, as the game went for 4 hours. Karpov,A (2710) - Shredder [E15] Man-Machine Dortmund GER (1), 09.07.1999 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Bg2 d5 8.cxd5 exd5 9.0-0 Ne4 10.Nc3 0-0 11.Rc1 Ba3 12.Rc2 Nxd2 13.Qxd2 c6 14.Ne5 Bb7 15.e4 f6 16.Nf3 dxe4 17.Nxe4 Na6 18.Rd1 Nb4 19.Rc4 a5 20.Ne1 Nd5 21.Nd3 Re8 22.Rc2 Qd7 23.Nc3 Re7 24.Nxd5 cxd5 25.Re1 Rae8 26.Rxe7 Qxe7 27.Qd1 Bd6 28.Bf3 Qd7 29.Re2 Kh8 30.Rxe8+ Qxe8 31.Ne1 Qd7 32.Ng2 Kg8 33.Ne3 Bb4 34.Qd3 Kh8 35.h4 Ba3 36.Bg4 Qe8 37.Bf3 Qd7 38.h5 Bb4 39.a4 Qe6 40.Kg2 Ba3 41.Qc2 Bc6 42.Kg1 h6 43.Ng2 Qd7 44.Nh4 Kg8 45.Qe2 Qe7 46.Qc2 Qd7 47.Kh2 b5 48.axb5 Bxb5 49.Be2 Bc6 50.Bd3 Bb7 51.Qe2 Qc6 52.Bf5 Kf7 53.Qg4 Kf8 54.Ng6+ Ke8 55.Nf4 Bf8 56.Qg6+ Ke7 57.Be6 Qe8 58.Bxd5 Bxd5 59.Nxd5+ Kd8 60.Qxe8+ Kxe8 61.Kg2 Kd7 62.Kf3 f5 63.Ne3 Ke6 64.g4 fxg4+ 65.Kxg4 Kf6 66.f4 g6 67.hxg6 Kxg6 68.f5+ Kf7 69.Kh5 Kf6 70.Kg4 Kf7 71.Nc4 Kf6 72.Nxa5 h5+ 73.Kf4 Bd6+ 74.Ke4 h4 75.Nc4 h3 76.Kf3 Bf4 77.b4 Kxf5 78.d5 h2 79.Kg2 Ke4 80.d6 Bxd6 81.Nxd6+ Kd5 ½-½
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