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Subject: Re: I thought junior was something very special

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 22:16:19 04/09/00

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On April 09, 2000 at 23:57:18, stuart taylor wrote:

>On April 09, 2000 at 03:41:28, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On April 08, 2000 at 19:53:41, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>   So does junior 6 have the greatest knowledge or not?
>>
>>Certainly not.
>________________________________________
>Do you mean certainly not because another program certainly has more knowledge?
>or not necesarily, but maybe different knowledge?
>________________________________________

I mean certainly not. :-)
I am sure at least MCP and Hiarcs have more knowledge.

>>> How did it fall so much?
>>
>>What are you talking of?
>>______________________________________
>ssdf rating list-where the new games pulled it down so much-mixed with the older
>games.
>_______________________________________

It was only a bit and will raise again after the Fritz6-match.

>>>S.Taylor
>>
>>Junior6 is an excellent program, IMO it is in the leading group with Shredder4
>>and Tiger, a bit above the others. (Rebel also seems to be very strong and maybe
>>Fritz counts to this group)
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>How can Shredder be in the leading group if it is-about 7th. place on selective
>Search rating list?

The SSRL does not mean anything to me, the ratings are based on a mixture of
SSDF games and some private tests. So it counts apples and oranges.

>And how do you single out Rebel which is much lower down
>even still?

Which Rebel is lower? Century has no autoplayer so I doubt that there are enough
games to say so. I have seen Century games, it is VERY strong.

> I'm not saying the list is the final evidence, but it usually must be quite
>close. How do you know differently?

Following watching games. :-)

>regards,
>S.Taylor
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