Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 13:39:10 01/06/01
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On January 06, 2001 at 15:55:36, Uri Blass wrote: >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 To release a New version of a program without having found a major improvement from its previous version is not a wise decision,therefore, the claim of Deep Fritz with only 20 or so rating points difference from the previous version of the single processor Fritz 6a is not a big Deal at all, Now if you have improved your previous version enormously like Nimzo 8 from Nimzo 7.32 with 50 rating points difference than you can say Eureka. Pichard.
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