Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:55:36 01/06/01
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On January 06, 2001 at 14:54:55, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On January 06, 2001 at 13:10:19, Frank Quisinsky wrote: > >>On January 06, 2001 at 13:06:32, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On January 06, 2001 at 12:40:57, G. R. Morton wrote: >>> >>>>On January 05, 2001 at 15:45:57, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hi, >>>>> >>>>>the final results from my POLL 6: >>>>> >>>>>"Which is your commercial chess program of the year 2000 >>>>>(only the program/engine, not the GUI) ?" >>>>> >>>>>under: http://vote.pollit.com/webpoll2?ID=348470 >>>>> >>>>>Thanks for voting, 522 votes are not bad :-) >>>>> >>>>>Best >>>>>Frank >> >>>>Although this poll is far from “scientific” since not everyone who voted had all >>>>of the programs to compare, I would think many voters own Junior6a and so I am >>>>very surprised (as others are) that Junior6a is at the bottom. Not only is it >>>>among the stongest programs but it also has superb interface capabilities and >>>>excellent features. >>>>So I (and others I’m sure) would be interested in knowing – from those whose own >>>>Junior6a and voted otherwise- what is it about Junior6a that is disappointing or >>>>inferior relative to the other software? Playing style? What? Thanks in advance. >>> >>>I have not Junior6 but I guess that most of the buyers of Junior6a also have >>>Fritz6 or Deep Fritz and voted for Fritz because it has better ssdf rating. >>> >>>There is also no new Junior when there is a new Deep Fritz, new Shredder new >>>Rebel and new Tiger and it also encouraged people not to vote for Junior. >>> >>>Uri > >Newer version of Junior will not necessarilly be better than the previous. >Does this sound familiar "if is not broken, don't fix it". It is not relevant because all the chess programs are broken and this is the reason that programmers fix them every year. Uri
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