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Subject: Re: Who says that computer chess isn't romantic?

Author: blass uri

Date: 14:16:31 02/03/00

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On February 03, 2000 at 07:51:50, Steve Coladonato wrote:

>On February 02, 2000 at 22:30:55, Havergal Brian wrote:
>
>>(12) Shredder 4 - Fritz 6a [C89]
>>Cadaqués Tournament Cadaqués, 30.01.2000
>>
>>
>>1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.c3 d5 9.exd5
>>Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.d3 Bd6 13.Re1 Qh4 14.g3 Qh3 15.Re4 Qf5 16.Nd2
>>Qg6 17.Nf1 f5 18.Rd4 f4 19.Rxd5 cxd5 20.Bxd5+ Be6 21.Bxa8 Rxa8 22.a4 fxg3
>>23.hxg3 b4 24.d4 Rf8 25.Qe2 Bd5 26.c4 Bf3 27.Qe3 Rf5 28.d5 Qh5 29.Qe6+ Kh8
>>30.Nh2 Re5 31.Qc8+ Re8 32.Qxe8+ Qxe8 33.Nxf3 Qe2 34.Nh4 Qe1+ 35.Kg2 Bc5 36.Be3
>>Qxa1 37.Bxc5 Qxb2 38.d6 Qc3 39.Nf3 Qxc4 40.d7 Qd5 41.Bxb4 Qxd7 42.a5 h6 43.Be1
>>Qe6 44.Bc3 Qe4 45.Bd4 Kh7 46.Be3 g5 47.Kf1 Qxf3 48.Kg1 Kg6 0-1
>>
>>
>>
>>What a beauty!  Marshall would have been proud.
>
>The Marshall seems to be a problem with more than just Shredder.  I have played
>it against the Novag Sapphire II and also Fritz 5.32 with success.  I believe
>that given the opportunity, the Marshall is good against most computer programs.

Can you post examples for the typical mistakes of computers with the white
pieces?


I found that one of the problem of shredder in this game is that it had a small
book.
Even a book of an old program like Genius3's book include another move instead
of 22.a4 and shredder was out of book at move 19.

Uri



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