Author: Kai Lübke
Date: 04:32:15 09/20/98
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On September 20, 1998 at 07:10:43, Rajen Gupta wrote: >I read on the Gambitsoft home page that Junior 5 is going to be a stand alone 32 >bit programme with a fritz5 interface. does this mean that Junior5 is a)a 32 bit >fritz (with a junior, instead of a fritz engine) b)will it have all the features >(in 32 bit implementation)that the currently available fritz5 programme has, >including the database features, opening book chess tree, correspondence >analysis, engine vs engine etc. c) can one import the existing firtz 3, 4, 5 and >the hiarcs6 engine modules from frtiz5 into junior 5 in order to play engine vs >engine? will it support the powerbooks? a) and b) are correct. At first sight, Junior 5 looks like Fritz 5 with the pop-up windows in Win95 style. It has all the features F5 has, plus a few improvements: * database search is significantly faster: doing a "search on position" in a 107,000 games database takes about 23 seconds instead of 65 (on my P6-233) * displays what I call "multi-PV", i.e. all PV's of the current analysis of a position are printed in the PV window, not just the most recent one * displays material difference * you can do everything from the "Move" menu (delete/promote lines, annotate moves) now directly in the move list by right-clicking with the mouse Plus some more things I'm too tired to mention now and others they might still add. :) c) is not completely true. The existing engines are 16 bit and don't fit in the 32 bit GUI by default. However, if the release version is more or less equal to the beta version I received, it will include Junior 4.6, Crafty 15.17 and Mate 1.1 (the latter two being 32 bit while J4.6 is still the 16 bit which has been slightly modified to fit in the 32 bit environment). Fritz 5 was also included in the beta (just like J4.6, it's a workaround to fit the 16 bit engine in the 32 bit GUI) - of course it asks for the original Fritz CD to work. As for Hiarcs 6 or earlier Fritzes, I don't know; probably Matthias from Chessbase knows about it. --- Shep
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