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Play online chess with Shredder
by Ian Smith Nov 19th 2007 at 2:00PM
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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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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vadim said 1:31PM on 12-11-2008
Its really not that hard actually, I drawed it couple of times, getting closer to beating
it. : )
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Esparta Palma said 2:32AM on 11-21-2007
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 Palma said 2:35AM on 11-21-2007
Ooopps, I mean just 6 queens
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Larry Long said 2:56AM on 12-10-2007
Great find!
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andrew said 8:19AM on 12-25-2007
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.
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