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Subject: Re: Chess program of the year 2000 !

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 17:18:24 01/06/01

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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
>
>Hi Uri,
>
>yes I agree ... I think also !
>
>Best
>Frank

I would not select Junior 6 because it is always crashing on my computers.  I
have tried it on 4 different computers and allways the same thing.  It crashes
often at the end of the game when saving the game to the database while running
auto232 games.  I will not buy a new Junior for the same reason unless it
becomes irresistable for some strange reason.
Jim



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