Author: blass uri
Date: 22:37:13 07/26/98
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On July 26, 1998 at 23:37:23, Mark Young wrote: >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. which opening book did you use? from my tests I found Fritz5 is clearly better than Junior4.6 in the nunn test and it is not important if I use fast time controls or slow time controls. Uri > 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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