My draw against Shredder 10.1

[Wardy]

Sorry but I had to post this, I'm like a dog with two tails

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.

Not the most exciting of games but hey it's my first draw against any of the silicon monsters and at best I might scrape 2000 elo!?

[tjfroh]

Paul,

Well done!

TJ

PS Post your next draw. So far I can't draw against Rybka 2.3.2a LK
64 bit on my Intel Core 2 Duo E-6850 playing with 816 MB RAM.
I will probably wait another six or seven years before getting a faster machine.

PS2 You can get Chess Titans with Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate. You should find it easy to beat on level six with your machine.

[Wardy]

Thanks TJ!

You might be waiting a while for the next one, it's taken a lot of hard training to just land this one!

I'm trying to hold out against a Vista upgrade..........well at least until the first service pack is out anyway

[tjfroh]

Paul,

Here is the best reason to migrate to Windows Vista.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... boost.mspx

You can add 2.5 times as much RAM using a flash memory stick that is fast enough to comply with the Microsoft standards. Memorex makes 4 GB devices for this purpose. So if you have 2 GB of RAM then you can add another four to five GB as flash RAM via a USB 2.0 port. This means that you can have more chess games and utilities running at the same time and they will access faster.

Thanks TJ!

You might be waiting a while for the next one, it's taken a lot of hard training to just land this one!

I'm trying to hold out against a Vista upgrade..........well at least until the first service pack is out anyway

[Nid Hogge]

Paul,

Here is the best reason to migrate to Windows Vista.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... boost.mspx

Tim you may wanna take a quick look here :

Microsoft Windows Vista & ReadyBoost: Does it Make a Difference?
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm? ... 160&page=1

It's a nice idea but the flash R/W speeds are so slow compared to DRAM right now, the end result is pretty bad .. there is hardly any improvments even with the 4GB modules. (only exception is windows boot times and that by a few seconds).

They sum it up pretty well : "ReadyBoost: Not There Yet".

Who knows maybe in the future it could work with faster RAM-based SSD's, but then again by that time you probably already going to have PRAM's and ZRAM's that offer much bigger densities per module, so the whole idea will be pretty much useless by then.

[tjfroh]

Windows XP only allows 4 GB RAM, whereas Windows Vista Home Premium allows 16 GB RAM and Windows Vista Ultimate allows 128 GB RAM. Sooner or later you will need to switch to the Vista and beyond families of modern operating systems.

To Progress,

Bill Gates Jr.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Windows XP only allows 4 GB RAM, whereas Windows Vista Home Premium allows 16 GB RAM and Windows Vista Ultimate allows 128 GB RAM. Sooner or later you will need to switch to the Vista and beyond families of modern operating systems.

To Progress,

Bill Gates Jr.

Amin uncle Timothy,I do agree here

[Nid Hogge]

Windows XP only allows 4 GB RAM, whereas Windows Vista Home Premium allows 16 GB RAM and Windows Vista Ultimate allows 128 GB RAM. Sooner or later you will need to switch to the Vista and beyond families of modern operating systems.

To Progress,

Bill Gates Jr.

Ummm no, sorry, but that's just wrong.

Windows XP x64 currently supports up to 128 GB of RAM.

Any Windows, no matter if it's Vista Premium/Ultimate/WinXP in 32bit mode can only support up to 4 GB (the OS will only see 3.5).

This is a phsyical limitaion with any 32bit OS.

32-bit processor uses 32 bits to refer to the location of each byte of memory. 2^32 = 4.2 billion, which means a memory address that's 32 bits long can only refer to 4.2 billion unique locations (i.e. 4 GB).

16bit =>2^16 = 64K
32bit =>2^32 = 4GB
64bit =>2^64 = 16G*GB = 17,179,869,184 GB

Vista is eye candy.
Future is larger densities per stick.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/overview.mspx

[Father]

Paul
Well done. Good job
With best respect,
Pablo