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Play online chess with Shredder
No, we aren't talking about Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We're talking about the Shredder chess engine. This AI likes to play chess, and it also likes to win.Let's face it, most game AI work these days is not about making harder opponents, it is about making flawed opponents that play like humans. "Indistinguishable", if you will. But, as Shredder makes clear, it is easy for the computers to beat humans. That is why the computers should fight each other.
The Shredder engine is actually built to play against other computer chess engines. It does its job well and has won 12 World Computer Chess Champion titles since 1996. For this online version the AI has been dumbed down to make for a more interesting human vs computer challenge. It is still dirt hard though and you'll have to have some serious chess skills to get more than 10 moves into most games without being checkmated.
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Subscribe to commentsvadimDec 11th 2008 1:31PM
Its really not that hard actually, I drawed it couple of times, getting closer to beating
it. : )
Esparta PalmaNov 21st 2007 2:32AM
It's fine, but at Easy mode is not that good:
http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shredderwinrz7.png
7 queens!
Any other engine can win me at easy mode :)
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Esparta PalmaNov 21st 2007 2:35AM
Ooopps, I mean just 6 queens
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Larry LongDec 10th 2007 2:56AM
Great find!
andrewDec 25th 2007 8:19AM
Thank God for human errorm naybe you meant you are the seventh queen?? :)
Shredder is responsible for me giving up playing humans on FICS(if a machine can thrash me what is the point!!)
and only a sense of humor prevents me from descending into deep depression over my lamentable ability at chess.