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The event took place from July 14 to 25, 2005 in the Circulo Medico de Vicente López, Buenos Aires. There were two closed round robin sections (and a big open). In the closed sections the computer program Shredder 9.0, running on a PIV, 3.5 GHz, with 512 MB of RAM, was participating, as it traditionally does evey year.
Shredder 9.0 playing in Argentina
From the main event (Daniel Miles in the foreground)
Young chess talents trying their hand against Shredder
The playing hall of the open tournament
First prize to the top human player Andres Rodriguez of Uruguay
In the final table of the Mercosur Cup Shredder 9.0 has been assigned an arbitrary rating of 2600. As we reported the program committed an inexplicable blunder in round three, giving up a whole piece for nothing. We can only assume there was some kind of technical glitch. In spite of this Shredder finished a point and a half ahead of the best human player, and displayed a rating performance of 2758. Slowly we have to admit: homo sapiens is not playing in the same league as computers.
In the lower-rated Torneo Magistral ITT Shredder fared similarly. We do not have all the games and take the final table from the official web site.
Place Name Rtg Score Berg. Wins
1 Shredder 9.0, 8.5 34.25 8
2 Flores, Diego 2513 7 24.25 6
3-4 Della Morte, Pablo 2271 5.5 22.00 4
Fusco, Leonardo 2278 5.5 20.25 3
5 Granara, Sebastian 2223 4.5 13.75 3
6-8 Paglilla, Carlos 2386 4 17.75 1
Zuriel, Marisa 2207 4 13.50 1
Valiente, Cristobal 2328 4 13.00 2
9 De Dovitiis, Alejo 2345 3.5 10.00 2
10 Lopez Gonzalez, Daniel 2225 3 9.00 1
11 Prates, Fabiano 2265 0.5 4.25 0
