Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:58:37 01/31/00
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On January 31, 2000 at 09:38:21, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>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
No offense intended to the new #1, but your test does not take book quality and
book learning quality into account, Enrique.
I have still faith in your test. It is too good to be damaged by one exception,
and the exception can be maybe explained by other factors.
Christophe
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