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Subject: Re: How about match PConners - Deep Junior?!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 04:32:19 08/11/00

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On August 11, 2000 at 04:11:12, Jouni Uski wrote:

>I wonder, if it's possible to arrange match between the two top rated (against
>humans) programs: Deep Junior 2702 (8*700Mhz) and PConners 2663 (160*300Mhz)?
>Mini match with 4-10 games will give interesting info about their strength!
>Just on idea...
>
>Jouni

I have seen P.Conners playing quite a lot. P.Conners is like junior:
not a very good eval (very bad in fact), but searching tactical lines
very deep. P.Conners runs on more processors like junior. So it's
not hard to imagine p.conners destroying its smaller brother completely.
Note that p.conners is not a preprocessor, but it's a selectively
searching program at 180 processors or so. Junior would completely
get butchered.

Programs using other approaches, like Rebel is a different story,
apart from the fact that the book of p.conners is not the best in the
world to use an understatement (though made by a real good chessplayer
that is not at all garantuee that it's good, idem for junior).

So a possible junior-p.conners confrontation is more like: does
junior have a killerbook? If you answer no to that, then it will lose
as it meets its tactical stronger brother. If answer is 'yes', then
it has a chance.

Where rebel stands is obvious, but its a different program as junior.
Idem for zarkovx, diep and others. They use a more knowledgeable approach,
because outsearching p.conners tactical is something you can shake till
your death. No one outsearches p.conners tactical. It is real good in
finding tactical shots.

To remember the game rebel-p.conners wcc99, p.conners got lost out of book
there, but saw many moves before rebel already that it would lose material,
where rebel only saw a good positional advantage for it (which conners
missed of course but it already saw the material).

Greetings,
Vincent



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