My draw with Shredder 10.1

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Wardy
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My draw with Shredder 10.1

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Paul Ward – Shredder 10 ½-½

1.d4 0s e6 book 0s
2.c4 11s b6 book 0s
3.Nf3 42s (Nc3) Bb7 book 0s
4.Nc3 39s Bb4 book 0s
5.Bd2 11s (Bg5) Nf6 book 0s
6.e3 2:12m (g3) O-O book 0s
7.Be2 17s (a3) d6 book 0s
8.O-O 16s Nbd7 book 0s
9.Qc2 7:42m Bxc3 book 0s
10.Bxc3 1:49m Ne4 book 0s
11.Nd2 2:15m (Rac1) f5 book 0s
12.Nxe4 1:09m (f4) Bxe4 +0.08/17 46s
13.Bd3 15s (Qd2) Bxd3 +0.11/17 2:47m
14.Qxd3 10s Qg5 +0.11/18 2:58m
15.Rae1 5:47m (f3) Rae8 +0.12/18 5:47m
16.f4 3:30m (f3)Qg6 +0.07/20 5:06m
17.Rf3 3:15m Nf6 +0.07/20 0s
18.Rg3 2:58m Qh6 0.00/20 3:27m
19.Rh3 4:54m (d5) Qg6 0.00/21 2:56m
20.Rg3 8s Qh6 +0.01/21 3:01m
21.Rh3 13s (d5) Qg6 0.00/22 3:02m
22.Rg3 18s Qh6 0.00/21 2:27m


Shredder was set to play with it's normal book (not tournament as I need to practice a wider variety of openings) at maximum strength on my AMDFX60 with 512mb hash. Time control was 40/2 hrs.

I'm posting this everywhere I can as it's my first draw against any of the super gm programs and I'm beside myself with disbelief! :D :shock: :D
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Nice Work!

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Nice work Paul!

What is your rating?

It does surprise me sometimes how quickly a machine will settle for a draw with a repeated position. I suppose the disadvantage the machine has in that it knows nothing of the quality of the opposition. I've no doubt your average human adversary with a similar GM rating would battle on for the win.....nevertheless well done and 1 up for the human race. :lol:

I've found that some of my more successful games versus computer oppositon have either come by playing a very attacking game against the king....or by attempting to exchange off pieces hoping for a draw.

This is one of my better games, not quite the opposition you faced.

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "15/11/2006"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Steve Ruff"]
[Black "Armagedden"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1600"]
[BlackElo "2100"]
[Opening "The Colle"]

{Blitz 10G}
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Bd3 b6 5. c3 d5 6. Nbd2 c4 7. Bc2 Nc6 8. O-O Bd6 9. Qe2 O-O
10. e4 Bf4 11. e5 Nd7 12. Re1 Qc7 13. g3 Bh6 14. Nf1 Bxc1 15. Raxc1 Ba6 16. Ne3 Rac8 17. Bxh7+
Kxh7 18. Ng5+ Kh6 19. h4 g6 20. Ng4+ Kg7 21. Qf3 Nd8 22. Nf6 Bb5 23. h5 gxh5 24. Nxh5+
Kh8 25. Kg2 a6 26. Rh1 Kg8 27. Nf6+ Kg7 28. Nxd7 Qxe5 29. Rh7+ Kg8 30. Qh5 Re8 31. Qh6
Nc6 32. Nf6+ Qxf6 33. Qxf6 Rcd8 34. Qg7# 1-0

Cheers Steve
Love wooden chess computers......you PC guys have no idea!!!
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Thanks Steve!

I actually don't have a rating as I've never been able to be a regular at a club - work pressures invariably meant that I was at best unreliable :D I would hazzard a guess at about 2000elo on a good day I suppose?! I've really no idea??

I think Shredder assumed that I would play something like d5, but I saw a chance of a swindle and went for it :twisted: after it had played Qh6 once I was fairly certain the repetition was in the bag, I was practically praying at the point the third repetition was about to be played - I was worried that SMK had some additional code to avoid the draw :shock:

Of course a human GM would have wiped me from the board I've no doubt :lol:

I tend to get creamed if I play very attacking chess, Hiarcs in particular tends to obliterate me :oops: The only way I've found to last is as you say to swop off as quickly as I can while trying to preserve my pawn structure for the endgame.

Yours is a nice game, have to say I am absolutely rubbish at Blitz hence I played at 40/2hrs, my brain just isn't quick enough any more :cry:
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