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Subject: Re: Even if Deep Junior lost the rest, its performance is incredible

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 09:26:59 07/12/00

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On July 12, 2000 at 12:16:32, blass uri wrote:

>On July 12, 2000 at 12:14:07, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>On July 12, 2000 at 11:59:50, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>I see the tide turning in some of the message headers and now people are
>>>apparently jumping ship.
>>>
>>>Deep Junior has already gone toe to toe with some of the very best players in
>>>the world and come out much better than I would have imagined at this time
>>>control.
>>>
>>>Quite frankly, I think it is more amazing than Deep Blue's performance against
>>>Kasparov, considering the equipment difference.
>>>
>>>I don't think that Deep Junior will lose the rest of the games.  But even if it
>>>did, I would still be awesomely impressed by the incredible performance.
>>>
>>>It's amusing how with one win people are ready to proclaim D.J. world champion
>>>and with one loss, something inferior.  Kraminik is one of the elite players in
>>>the world.  A loss should not prove astonishing.
>>>
>>>Whatever the rest of the results are, Amir Ban and company deserve broad praise
>>>for their astonishing efforts.
>>
>>Absolutely. Not only DJ scored extremely well, but it played some great games. I
>>didn't expect Junior (or any other program) to do so well at all.
>>
>>Aside from this, I don't understand why Junior went against Kramnik for a line
>>that Mig published months ago as the way to beat Junior 5.
>>
>>Enrique
>
>Maybe Amir did not read Mig.
>Can you tell me what did they publish?
>
>Uri

In the chat room, Mig mentioned the link to a page on the Chessbase website
where he published the line. I find hard to believe that the Junior team doesn't
read that site, but it is possible.

Enrique



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