Shredder gets Gold

[peter]

Hi everybody!

In Round 9 of WCSC tournament Shredder beats Junior with black pieces and earns its 13th title.

http://ticc.uvt.nl/icga/cg2010results/WCSC.html

Congrats to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and his team!

Here the winning game against Junior:

[Event "WCSC 2010"]
[Site "Kanazawa"]
[Date "2010.10.02"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Deep Junior"]
[Black "Shredder"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "2010.??.??"]
[EventCountry "JPN"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. O-O Nd4 6. Nxd4 Bxd4 7. Nd2 c6 8.
Ba4 Bc5 9. c3 O-O 10. d4 exd4 11. e5 dxc3 12. bxc3 Ne8 13. Ne4 Be7 14. Bf4 f6
15. exf6 d5 16. fxe7 Qxe7 17. Bg3 Qxe4 18. Rb1 Qc4 19. Re1 Qxc3 20. Bc2 b6 21.
h3 Qf6 22. Rb3 Bf5 23. Rf3 Bxc2 24. Qxc2 Qg6 25. Rxf8+ Kxf8 26. Qa4 h6 27. Re3
Kg8 28. Re7 Qf6 29. Re3 Kh7 30. Be5 Qg6 31. Rg3 Qf5 32. f4 c5 33. Qa6 Qf7 34.
Qd3+ Kg8 35. f5 Rd8 36. Rg6 Kf8 37. f6 gxf6 38. Bf4 Qe6 39. Rxh6 Qe4 40. Qg3
Ke7 41. Kh2 Rd7 42. Rh4 d4 43. Bd6+ Nxd6 44. Rxe4+ Nxe4 45. Qd3 f5 46. g4 Kf6
47. Qf3 Rd5 48. gxf5 Ke5 49. Qd3 Rd6 50. f6 Rxf6 51. h4 Rf4 52. Qb5 Rxh4+ 53.
Kg2 Rg4+ 54. Kh2 Rg3 55. Qe8+ Kf4 56. Qf8+ Ke3 57. Qh6+ Ke2 58. Qh5+ Kd2 59.
Qh7 Re3 60. Qxa7 d3 61. Qxb6 Ke2 0-1

[AdminX]

I loved the way Deep Junior kept the attack going in the early stages of this game, but in the end I guess he threw to much wood on the fire. The poor queen was so over worked. Nice win by Shredder.

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Thanks for sharing this.

PS: Who created Shredder's book? Looks like 9. ... 0-0 was a nice novelty.

[M ANSARI]

Junior has always been the speculative engine. As engines improve and hardware improves, this type of style tends to backfire. Against humans though it is devastating.

[AdminX]

Junior has always been the speculative engine. As engines improve and hardware improves, this type of style tends to backfire. Against humans though it is devastating.

I fine this statement so true.

[peter]

PS: Who created Shredder's book? Looks like 9. ... 0-0 was a nice novelty.

According to ICGA site it was Sandro Necchi again and 9... 0-0 I couldn't find in databases nor in books neither.

[Graham Banks]

Hi everybody!

In Round 9 of WCSC tournament Shredder beats Junior with black pieces and earns its 13th title.

http://ticc.uvt.nl/icga/cg2010results/WCSC.html

Congrats to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and his team!

Hi Peter,

how was this tournament different to the one which Rybka won?

Cheers,
Graham.

[uaf]

In this one all the programs were running on the same hardware.

[Graham Banks]

In this one all the programs were running on the same hardware.

Very good. Thanks.

[Robert Flesher]

Hi everybody!

In Round 9 of WCSC tournament Shredder beats Junior with black pieces and earns its 13th title.

http://ticc.uvt.nl/icga/cg2010results/WCSC.html

Congrats to Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and his team!

Hi Peter,

how was this tournament different to the one which Rybka won?

Cheers,
Graham.

.....and it seems Rybka did not play in this tournament ?

[tomgdrums]

Junior has always been the speculative engine. As engines improve and hardware improves, this type of style tends to backfire. Against humans though it is devastating.

That is why Junior is one of my absolute MAIN engines when analyzing my own games and to train against.