Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 03:40:27 12/26/97
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>This is not to say (lest I be blasted) that Junior is doing anything >wrong. But don't expect to see him winning 99.5 percent of all his >games against the very best programs because he is seeing 5 ply >farther! > >-- Don You should not quote KK and claim that I believe that Junior is always 5 plies deeper. I want to find out about a phenomena. The first think I do is collecting data. Something is different in this program. And you can make your jokes about me collecting long-main-lines. But what I saw in Paris and in Paderborn is obviously not normal. I don't remember the hardware they used in Paderborn 1995. I don't remember how many NPS I saw on screen. Maybe I have written it down in my Paderborn article. I don't remember. But what I know from memory is that the numbers were to high relating to the 1995 state of the art hardware/software. Also the main lines WERE definetely too long. There must be something different in Junior's search. And - as I said - when we have it, we will find out using test-suites and all kinds of experiments. In paderborn I did not take much energy in finding the weird thing out, because CSTal killed Junior and I though: hm - a weird program this junior. It does many NPS but is unable to beat CSTal. So the many NPS are wasted computation. Of course after Paris I cannot say/think the same :-)
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