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Subject: Re: New SSDF-list!!!

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 06:38:21 01/31/00

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On January 31, 2000 at 09:30:27, Amir Ban wrote:

>On January 31, 2000 at 07:48:02, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On January 30, 2000 at 13:36:38, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:
>>
>>>-  Games   Won  Oppo
>>>                                           ------  ---   --- -----   ---  ----
>>>   1 Junior 6.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2706   38   -35   403   70%  2556
>>>   2 Chess Tiger 12.0 DOS 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 2682   37   -35   414   67%  2555
>>>   3 Nimzo 7.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2661   36   -34   420   68%  2530
>>>   4 Fritz 5.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2659   34   -32   474   65%  2548
>>>   5 Junior 5.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2629   35   -33   438   63%  2532
>>>   6 Nimzo 99  128MB K6-2 450 MHz            2627   44   -42   278   64%  2526
>>>   7 Hiarcs 7.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz         2624   40   -38   347   66%  2505
>>>   8 Chessmaster 6000  64MB P200 MMX         2574   61   -53   184   76%  2378
>>
>>Wow. Sorry if I forgot to convey my own congratulations to Amir and Shay. Like
>>everyone else who doesn't yet have the program (notice the "yet"), I am
>>extremely curious to play this newest of the wunderkinds. Afterall, it is the
>>first to clearly sidestep the results of certain secret tests of certain
>>secretive Spanish testers, showing a true evolutive step towards that elusive
>>superiority of knowledge over tactics, allowing it to 'see' beyond its tactical
>>boundaries. And not content with this you even released a patch improving it! My
>>hat is off. Congratulations once more!
>>
>>                                     Albert Silver
>
>Thanks very much. And, yes, I was going to about the "secret test suite", but
>you beat me to it.

So the test goes to its original purpose. Still, all programs perform basically
the same in the test and in the SSDF list, as Bertil and Christophe can confirm,
and this includes Junior 5. The exception is Junior 6. Why! :(

Enrique

>Amir



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