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Subject: Re: Junior's recent tournament

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 15:07:26 07/17/98

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On July 16, 1998 at 19:25:14, Howard Exner wrote:

>Thanks for posting the games. Were you happy with 4/6? It
>looks like a good result to me. I hope you will be able to
>enter Junior in future events like this.
>

The result was 4/7. The result was OK. It was not better than some previous
tournaments. I was expecting the fast hardware and improved version to show up
more significantly.

Junior will probably play in the Kfar-Saba Weekend tournament (a 5-round swiss)
in early August. We attend this tournament every year.


>Were there many players who chose not to play the computer
>in this tournament (that's if they were given a choice)?
>Do the players who play against Junior share their thoughts
>with you on how it plays? Praise, criticism, comparison to
>older versions ... ?

I think there was no option not to play the computer. Anyway, I don't know that
anyone wanted not to play. Junior was just above midfield in this tournament, so
there was no reason for it. There was post-game analysis with some of the
opponents. This analysis is not very different, from what takes place between
too humans. Krayz, who never played a computer before, said that he found the
experience very interesting, and thanked us for it. I met Avrukh several days
after our game, and he described the computer as "impossible to beat".

Amir



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