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Subject: Re: Hmm . . . is Junior5 not good enough??

Author: blass uri

Date: 15:34:06 10/17/98

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On October 17, 1998 at 18:12:15, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>On October 17, 1998 at 16:22:53, g.müller wrote:
>
>>Sure but Tal can beat everyone on my AMD K6-2 450 Mhz (kryo)
>
>Sure, but how often?
>
>What CST plays is interesting games. Right now Junior 5 and CST Black are
>playing the 4th games (so far, 2.5-0.5 fo Junior). This is the position at move
>22, black to play:
>
>1k1r2r1/ppqb4/2nn1P2/3Q2P1/4pP2/P2P4/4N2P/1RB1KBR1 b - -
>
>It's a crazy position with the white king in the center but with all those
>king-side passed pawns.
>
>Tal stayed in book until move 20. Right out of book, CST thought it was +6 (!).
>Junior thought white was better too, but by +1. This gives an idea of how
>speculative CST plays.
>
>It's not a matter of having problems with CST, but of only seeing posted games
>that CST wins. It's an interesting program, even more interesting as a
>development project, but with little chances against the strongest ones.
>
>Enrique

plaese post the games

Uri



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