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Subject: Re: Junior5 finds 11...h5

Author: Steve Lopez

Date: 14:13:48 12/28/98

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On December 28, 1998 at 16:20:50, Dr. Gregor Overney wrote:


>Did Amir (I hope I remember his name correctly) not put all those games into the
>opening book? Does Junior 5 find this move or does it load this position from a
>file and makes its decision based on this?

It doesn't matter whether he did or didn't in this case, as I was running
Junior5 as a module inside ChessBase and it therefore didn't have access to an
opening book.

>
>Since I have not used Junior 5, could you please submit the game analysis.

There's no analysis to be submitted, other than what I already posted as to
search depth and time. It wasn't analyzing the complete game. I just loaded the
Kasparov-Deep Blue game in ChessBase, clicked on White's 11th move and activated
the engine. It found 11...h5 in the time stated and stayed with the move (it's
analysis didn't change with a deeper search).

>
>The reason, I am asking, is based on the fact that other people seem to find 11
>...h5 within a rather short time when using Junior 5.

That's because I'm using a Pentium 133 with minimal hash tables (2 MB), so
naturally it will find the move more slowly than somebody running it on the
latest hardware with large hash tables.

My point is that Kasparov's statement is a crock. Junior5 finds the move on a
computer that is *much much much* less advanced than Deep Blue, and still finds
it in a length of time that isn't unreasonable for a game played at tournament
time controls.



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