Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:13:35 06/02/00
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On June 02, 2000 at 02:01:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On June 02, 2000 at 01:44:29, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>Don't panic here. 8 cpus is not twice as fast as 4 cpus, in the world of SMP
>searching.
Yes, meaning it most likely won't even get an extra ply as opposed to 4 cpus
unless they are also using newer and faster processors (like the new 700 Mhz
Xeons) for the occasion. All the same, the matchups are fascinating. It's hard
to say how well it will do but if Xie Jun's games are any indication, Junior may
still be in for some serious trouble. Barring some of the absurdities that took
place, like the operator mistakes, the book problems, etc... Xie Jun did very
well against it, and I expect that these players will most likely make mincemeat
of it. Among other things, I think that contrary to the Dutch championship, all
the players here will be well-prepared against Junior as no one will want to
become its first Super GM scalp. Still, Junior's resilience should help save it
from many difficult positions so I predict a TPR slightly over 2600.
Albert Silver
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