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Subject: Re: Junior 5 - Crafty 15.17 +16 =4 -0 (25'+12

Author: Moritz Berger

Date: 10:30:14 08/29/98

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On August 29, 1998 at 13:09:49, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On August 28, 1998 at 10:22:43, Moritz Berger wrote:
>
>>After Dirk reported 80% scores for Junior 5 vs. Genius 5 on 2 P200MMX machines
>>in regular games, I'm pleased to top this score with a 90% result vs. Crafty
>>15.17 (engine) in a match with alternating colors from the 10 well known start
>>positions by GM John Nunn on one P233MMX (internal Fritz autoplayer, no
>>permanent brain, 32768 KB hash tables for both engines).
>>
>>Enjoy the games!
>
>If Junior 5.0 is really strong, that's great.  A match against another program
>running on the same machine isn't going to convince me though, whether permanent
>brain is on or not.  For all I know, Junior could be polling the message queue
>just like Chessmaster xx00.
>
>In fact, I would go so far as to say that in most cases, posting results based
>on a one-machine match is simply misleading and should be avoided.
>
>But please try with two separate machines if possible and tell me what happened.
> If Junior again wins by such a margin, I will say "Cool!" :-)
>
>Dave Gomboc

I used *both* Junior and Crafty as Fritz.32 engines, so ressource allocation was
absolutely fair (no messages queue polling ...).

Moritz



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