Author: Amir Ban
Date: 05:47:19 07/01/98
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On June 30, 1998 at 20:10:28, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Amir: >Could you tell us which will be the main features of your Junior 5? It seems >that his release is not very far, so say Thorald from SSDF. >Fernando Junior 5.0 will be a 32-bit engine for ChessBase. It will work with ChessBase 7.0 and with Fritz 5.32, a rewrite of Fritz5 for Win32. Fritz 5.32 will be released together with Junior5, sometime this summer. It will later be a platform for a Nimzo engine. New features will be: - True 32-bit operation of both the Fritz/CB shell and Junior engine, which alone account for 20%-25% speed increase over the 16-bit environment. - A new "engine parameters" setting capability, which will enable to control several interesting features of the engine, for analysis, playing or sparring purposes. E.g.: A "combination mode" will select the best setting for finding combinations and solving tactical suites, randomization of play, disabling of entire classes of eval features, and more. - Autoplayer. - The new 5.0 engine. DISCLAIMER: I am not a spokesman for Chessbase, and this is not a product announcement. The 5.0 engine contains many changes compared to the 4.6 engine. The changes represent evolution, not revolution. Most of the changes are in evaluation of the middlegame, but there are some significant changes in the endgame, and the engine is in general a bit faster. All of these I think produce a style that is a bit more solid, and overall stronger. How much stronger is really tough to say, even with a lot of testing, but I will give an estimate of 40-50 rating points. Amir
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