Author: Mark Young
Date: 23:52:16 07/26/98
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On July 27, 1998 at 01:37:13, blass uri wrote: > >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. > I used my own power book made from 600,000+ master level games. The computer picked the openings and the programs played both sides. And I have done the same thing more then 5 time and let it run all night. All the times at fast time controls Junior 4.6 was better then Fritz 5. As I slow down the time control its fritz 5 that comes out on top. >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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