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Subject: Re: The new version of Junior is significantly better

Author: Mark Young

Date: 20:37:23 07/26/98

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On July 26, 1998 at 23:14:45, blass uri wrote:

>I tested the new version of Junior Amir Ban sent me
>and I did a nunn match between Junior and fritz5
>
>I used pentium200MMX
>
>Junior5 won the nunn match 12:8
>(I gave the programs 10 minutes per game+10 seconds per move).
>I gave every program 12,000Kbytes hash tables(I cannot give exactly 12000 so the
>computer made it 11,9..Kbytes
>
>I think the main reason Junior5 won fitz5 is that Junior was better in tactics.
>
>before this match I did a nunn match with 10 minutes per game without 10 seconds
>per move(both sides used near 10,000Kbytes hash tables).
>In this match fritz5 won 12:8 but when I looked at the games I saw that
>in 1 of the games Junior lost in time at move 156 in a draw position.
>fritz has only king and bishop when Junior had king bishop and a pawn.
>This is the reason I decided to give the programs more 10 seconds per move.
>
>This is a big improvement because Junior4.6 lost to fritz5 14.5:5.5 in 10
>minutes per move and if I added 10 seconds to every move the result was not
>better.
>
>Uri

I have not run the Nunn test with Junior 4.6, but I did let them play out of the
same opening book and play both side of the opening. I found Junior 4.6 better
then Fritz 5 at fast time controls. I think it is wrong for people to think
fritz 5 is best at fast time controls. I found the program much stronger at
slower time controls. If you have the time could you run the match at say game
30 with 30 sec inc. I would find this much more telling. I think Junior 5 will
be a great program. I can wait until I can buy a copy.



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