Author: Fabio Barrettone
Date: 02:51:49 07/10/01
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On July 10, 2001 at 04:41:36, Harald Faber wrote: >I have been very curious about the new Junior 7. The games of the beta I have >seen showed offensive and >exciting chess. In the match versus ChessTiger the first beta-impressions have >been confirmed: Junior >does not care for the own material, sacrifices too much and too often IMO. >Especially against ChessTiger >this method is a dead born child. Tiger plays so stable, safe, secure so that >Harakiri attacks don't >work. Tiger takes what he can get, defends the attacks and escapes with a won >endgame due to the plus of >material that Junior sacced before. It worked so well that Tiger won clearly by >7.0-3.0 versus Junior. Junior 7 is a very beautiful engine to watch. I like its style very much. However, I don't know why the people at Chessbase has given it a book that doesn't suite at all its style of play. They have given J7 a book that reach almost all the times simple positions and this is as to say "destroy me" with engines as Chess Tiger considering the style of J7. J7 is a master of chaos, give him a position where things are confused and chaotic and it will show its beauty, same about position where a king attack is possible, its evaluatin simply is a step forward to all the other engines. In king's attacks it is stronger also of Gambit Tiger. Well, the moral of the story is this, I've made a special book for J7 taking all the most complicated openings I could find, and with the games where there was the break of the pawn shield of the opposite king. Playing with this book J7 is become almost unbeatable, and I'm not joking. I've done 20 games against Chess Tiger (his nightmare, as your test and mine before suggest) and it won 15.5 - 4.5, where in my precedent testings with the original book it lost 7 - 13. In any case I think that J7 is one of the more entertaining engines to watch. Sincerely, Fabio.
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