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Subject: Re: ...old version on new system vs. new version on old system

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 16:06:55 09/08/01

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On September 08, 2001 at 18:14:07, Gregor Overney wrote:

>On September 07, 2001 at 14:33:46, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 07, 2001 at 14:01:00, Gregor Overney wrote:
>>
>>>>I agree that Deeper blue was the best at 1997 but programmers learned a lot
>>>>after 1997.
>>>>
>>>I am not too sure about those algorithmic improvements that have been achieved
>>>from 1997 until 2001. For example, take Junior 5 and the newest version of it.
>>>Give version 5 a PIII/850 and the older one a PII/400.
>>
>>Junior5 is not from 1997 but from 1998.
>>
>>Junior4.5 won the micro world championship in the end of 1997.
>>The best program at the middle of 1997 was probably Genius of
>>richard lang.
>>
>>I believe that Genius on pIII/850 is going to lose
>>at torunament time control against Deep Fritz on PII400.
>>
>>I also believe that Junior7 PII/400 has good chances to win
>>against Junior5(PIII 850) if you do not play blitz but
>>tournament time control games.
>>
>
>As soon as I get my copy of Junior 7, I could try this one. I have two
>questions.
>
>1) How do I play two Juniors on two different systems against each other? I have
>chessd (a new version of the old FICS code) on a seperate server. But so far, I
>was only unsing Winboard 4.2.3 to connect with chessd when trying different
>chess engines.

I do not know.
I never did games between programs on different computers.

>
>2) Does it matter if I get deep Junior, or is deep Junior on a single processor
>box worse than the single processor version of Junior?

Junior7 and not Deep Junior is considered to be the best version for a single
processor.

Uri



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