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Subject: Re: Calculating Computer Ratings????(questions about Junior)

Author: Kai Lübke

Date: 00:21:37 07/30/98

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On July 30, 1998 at 02:04:43, blass uri wrote:

>>For example Chessmaster 5555 on Kai Luebke's web page
>>"http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Ring/8448/chessindex2.html" in 40/2 games
>
>I looked at the games and I do not understand why Junior4.6 as white
>was never out of book in its game against and did a draw.

The reason was that I don't use the standard Junior book but rather a 360 MB
opening tree compiled from TOPBASE.DAT from the Rebel 9 bonus CD (I use it for
Fritz, Junior and Hiarcs alike).
It has the full 16 moves in it. The draw came as result of 3-fold repetition.

>The game was:
>1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.Nf3 Nd7 7.h4 h6
>8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Qc7 11.Rh4 e6 12.Bf4 Qa5+ 13.Bd2 Qc7
>14.Bf4 Qa5+ 15.Bd2 Qc7 16.Bf4
>
>Junior4.6 as an annotator of a game between Nimzo98 and Fritz5.01:
>"White has lost his nerve... understandable when you consider his position"
>
>2 mistakes:
>1)White is a computer program so it has no nerves
>2)should be its position and not his
>
>Is the shuvinist "his"  a word of Junior4.6 or maybe a word of Fritz5(using
>Junior4.6 as an engine for it)?

It's Fritz' fault. :)

---
Shep




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