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Subject: Re: Junior6a - Gambit-Tiger, PGN's

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 21:55:47 11/13/00

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On November 13, 2000 at 21:09:49, stuart taylor wrote:

>On November 13, 2000 at 19:58:49, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>On November 13, 2000 at 19:53:54, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Is it Junior 6.0 against Tiger 0.95, or Junior 6a against Gambit Tiger 1.0?
>>>
>>>If so, Gambit Tiger doesn't look very good!
>>
>>They're both Gambit Tiger. The 1.0 version is the one released commercially and
>>the 0.95 version is a previous beta AFAIK.
>>
>>Mogens.
>
>
>I think I understand now.
>Well! that almost makes me want to cry! (together with an emotional Gambit
>Tiger).
>GT does not look anything special at all according to these results.
>GT 1.0 vs. Junior 6a have 17 games over here.
>    W5/L5/=7 each. And GT was not able to win a single game as Black, Whereas it
>managed to lose two games as white, and Junior 6a lost no games as white.
>
>You might say, "but it's not enough games to indicate very much"!
>  But I can tell you, that I anyway am always upset to see a program which I
>want to get for analysis, and main use, lose even one game, esp. to a previous
>generation program, since that indicates some inadequacy somewhere, compared to
>something else which is available. I would prefer if they were many draws, even
>if only the occasional win. That would look more reliably better. But now, it
>looks like in many ways, the old Junior6a is stronger than GT.
>S.Taylor

Rubbish. 50% score makes J6a look stronger than GT?? Where are you living?

It is well known that GT result with "only" 50% score is the worst GT reached,
all other opponents GT played better than 50%.

And BTW, Thorsten didn't play with Tigers opening book, only a small book.




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