Author: Telmo Escobar
Date: 18:16:00 03/21/02
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On March 21, 2002 at 18:19:12, James T. Walker wrote: > >This was not Junior 7 like I have. My Junior 7 would have played more >agressive moves. Was it contempt factor settings? Is it something new that >Amir is trying? > Maybe Deep Junior doesn't play like Junior 7. They are different engines. Also I think that some criticisms about DJ's play in this game are exaggerate, and that Junior played well in my view. In particular, h2-h4 and h4-h5 are very good positional moves (by the way, it has been reported that all versions of Junior are fond of moves with pawns "a" and "h"). It's exceedingly difficult to win against these kind of French positions. I would not >be too quick to criticize untill I know exactly what happened today. I hope >there is some reasonable explanation. In any case you have to lay part of the >blame on the GM. He did nothing either. The game was a draw. That is still >not a bad result vs a GM. I would have liked to see Junior play more agressive >with white myself but if GM's have to resort to this tactic to draw with >computers then that also says something about computer strength. >Jim >Jim
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