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Subject: Re: Junior 8 with wrong evaluation of game 4 against Kasparov

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 15:13:16 05/12/03

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On May 12, 2003 at 16:59:39, stuart taylor wrote:

>On May 12, 2003 at 15:04:38, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On May 12, 2003 at 14:48:03, Thomas Lagershausen wrote:
>>
>>>[D]2r2rk1/1bq1bppp/p2ppn2/1p2n3/2P1P3/1PN1BP1P/P1NQB1P1/2R2RK1 w - -
>>>
>>>Amir Ban had announced in his annotations that Deep Junior 8 here had planned to
>>>play the sacrifice 18.cxb5.But after this black wins easily the game with
>>>18...Qxc3 19.Qxc3 Rxc3 20.bxa6 Ba8 21.Bd4 Rcc8 22.a7 Nc6 (or ...Ned7)23.Ba6 Nxd4
>>>24.Nxd4 Rxc1 25.Rxc1 d5 26.exd5 Nxd5 and white has a lost position.
>>>
>>>It looks like that Junior 8 will need a lot of improvements to play on the level of CM 9000 SKR or Shreddder 7.04 for my opinion.
>>>TL
>>
>>
>>    Hi Thomas
>>    I agree and think this is the reason why Junior8 is still "outstanding".
>>    The Junior8 params would [in my opinion] surely not work against today's
>>    top engines like Fritz8 and Shredder704 ... and not at all vs CM9 SKR.
>>    Kurt
>
>I would have thought that, since Amir Ban, and/or Bushinsky said a few days ago
>it will be out in 10, days, and that it was up to chessbase, seeing that Amir
>Ban seems to have plenty time recently to post relaxingly on CTF, I'd have
>thought that he had no work left to be done on his program, and was quite
>relaxed about it.
>S.Taylor

     Amir Ban has most probably finished his work and it's indeed up to
     ChessBase to bring Junior8 out ... anticipated joy is most exiting.
     Kurt



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