Author: blass uri
Date: 06:45:43 02/05/00
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On February 05, 2000 at 09:06:37, blass uri wrote: >On February 05, 2000 at 08:49:29, Sune Larsson wrote: > >>On February 05, 2000 at 05:59:55, blass uri wrote: >> >>>Junior6a blundered and ate the pawn b2 in the game against azrkov >>> >>>you can see some games including this game at >>>http://www.oxford-softworks.com/cgi-bin/forums/mschess/300.html >>> >>>I am interested to know if the blunder Qxb2 was part of Junior's new book. >>>It seems that GM alterman did not do a good job about Junior's book otherwise >>>Junior could have a better line in book. >>> >>>Uri >> >> Yes, 9.-Qxb2 is to be found in Junior's new book. The move is followed by "?", >> and, as I understand it, should not be played actively by Junior. >> >> Thanks >> Sune > >If this is the case than it is strange that Junior played this move. > >I found that Junior5.9 can avoid Qxb2 by search at depth 16 and I thought that >Junior6a should be better. > >I am interested to know if Junior6a can avoid Qxb2 at tournament time control >(2 hours/40 moves on something close to p400). > >Uri 1)When Junior jumps from depth 14 to 16 at 105 minutes/40 moves on pentiumIII450(44 Mbytes hash tables) it can avoid Qxb2 and play Qa5 but when it jumps from depth 15 to 17 at 225 minutes/40 moves on the same computer(this time 128Mbytes hash tables) it uses less time and plays Qxb2 with evaluation 0.00. Does Junior6a show a similiar behaviour? 2)I think that Junior should know to avoid moves with ? in the book. A possible way to do it is to use the 2 options if it cannot do it by search and choose the next best. Uri
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