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Subject: Re: About Junior 8

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 17:01:55 06/26/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 08:37:39, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 26, 2003 at 07:35:44, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>On June 25, 2003 at 13:28:58, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On June 25, 2003 at 13:20:35, Maury Schwenkler wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 25, 2003 at 09:44:47, Dimitris Poulos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I noticed that Chessbase gives a new Junior 8/Deep Junior 8( some days ago). But
>>>>>it is only the eng file. Wouldn't it be better if it was giving the supporting
>>>>>dll too?
>>>>>Me I don't have Junior 8. Isn't it pity to buy it just to play some
>>>>>engine-engine matches? If someone from Chessbase is reading this message, please
>>>>>consider to give for free the engines.
>>>>>Dimitris
>>>>
>>>>I agree with you, so, I copied and renamed my Junior 7 dll to Jr_80.dll.  Now
>>>>the engine will run, although I don't know if it is the same strength as it
>>>>would be with the real dll.
>>>
>>>It is the same as Junior7
>>>The .dll file is the engine and not the .eng file.
>>>I know that when I tested Junior5.x, Amir sent me .dll files and not .eng file.
>>
>>This can't be correct for Junior 8. The .eng files MUST be the engines, because
>>those are the files that Chessbase offered for the engine upgrades.
>
>
>Engines upgrades?
>
>I do not know about engine upgrade of Junior8.
>There was only losing on time problem that was fixed that may be a problem of
>the connection between the engine and the interface.
>
>I guess that the interface sent the Junior engine wrong information about time
>or about number of moves.

Given that it was J8 that was updated, not the interface, a more logical guess
would be that the information sent was correct but that it was not processed
correctly.

Dave



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