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Subject: Re: How will Junior Fare at Dortmund?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 22:44:29 06/01/00

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On June 02, 2000 at 00:58:00, blass uri wrote:

>On June 02, 2000 at 00:18:23, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On June 02, 2000 at 00:06:40, Rick Luce wrote:
>>
>>>Junior 6 is slated to participate in the Dortmund tournament in July.  How well
>>>do you think it will do?  My guess is that Junior will fare poorly against such
>>>a strong field and could easily finish last.
>>>
>>>By my calculation, Fritz performed at about 2590 level at the Dutch
>>>Championship, if you discount the two games which were essentially forfeit wins.
>>> If Junior performs at a similar level, it could be in trouble.  The competition
>>>at Dortmund will be much stronger including the likes of Khalifman, Anand,
>>>Huebner, Leko etc.
>>>
>>>Also, has there been any indication that any of the GMs will refuse to play
>>>Junior?
>>>
>>>-Rick
>>
>>Do you have a link for a site with info about the tournament?  Which Junior?
>>What hrdware will it run on.  My unqualified opinion, not knowing any answers to
>>those questions anyhow, is that Junior will do better than Fritz did.  Just a
>>gut feeling.
>>
>>Pete
>
>I remember that Junior will use 8 processors so it will use better hardware than
>the hardware of Fritz.
>
>Uri

Thanks, yes, I found this at the Chessbase site; "in the Super-GM tournament it
will have an eight-processor system".  So Junior should do very well.

Pete



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