Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 21:21:51 12/23/99
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On December 23, 1999 at 05:41:25, blass uri wrote: >On December 23, 1999 at 04:51:50, Bertil Eklund wrote: > >>On December 23, 1999 at 04:03:21, Anatoli wrote: >> >>>Hi ! >>>Any first impressions about this engine ? Thanks. >>> >>>Best wishes >>>Anatoli >> >>Hi! >> >>I have only checked it in a few blitz-games and I am very impressed! >> >>Junior6-Tiger12.0 5min 5-3 >>Junior5-Hiarcs7.32 10min 8,5-2,5 >> >>Two AMD450 K6-2 >> >>I played with the endgame-turbo with Junior6, and one draw against Tiger was >>caused by incorrect handling in the TB. Junior announced mate in 14 but played a >>3-time repetition. >> >>Bertil SSDF > >I understand that Fritz6,hiarcs7.32 and Junior6 do the same mistake. >They do not know when to stop using their tablebases. > >I guess that the right move was a promotion to queen when Junior had not the >relevant tablebases. > >What is the reason that the programmers of chessbase cannot solve problems that >Bob hyatt solved some weeks ago? > >Is bob hyatt a better programmer than the programmers of Junior,Hiarcs,Fritz in >the ability to fix bugs? > >Uri Bob's position is that you should always have all the tablebases you might reach. Somebody else contributed the code to handle the case where it simply wasn't present. Of course, Bob could have written it, but I don't think it was high on his priority list at the time. Frankly, I don't think this issue really has anything to do with who is a better programmer than who. Dave
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