Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 14:53:12 06/09/00
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I have seen Junior 6a take up to 7 minutes for a single move when playing a game at 15 minutes + 15 sec/move increment. Granted, it finally moved and it only ran its clock down to 4 minutes left; this is somewhat different from what you cite. Junior 6 on several other occasions has taken quite a while on some moves - I'd say about 3 times longer than "normal" for whatever time control was being used. I noted that usually when Junior took a very long time to move, the position was complex and at a critical point in the game. Taking a long time in such situations seems somewhat normal to me. Unusual for a program? Yes. But as a human, in those few cases where I can actually sense that the critical point of the game has been reached, I will study the position at length in an attempt to fully understand what is going on. At least that is what I *try* to do. Usually, I blunder a piece and resign :-( None of this has hard examples with facts in it; just my recollections. Roy
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