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Subject: Re: Junior 5 engine - is speed all?

Author: blass uri

Date: 02:23:04 10/17/98

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On October 17, 1998 at 04:57:00, Alessio Iacovoni wrote:

>Gambisoft posts:
>
>"Customers report unisono that JUNIOR 5 runs at top speed. We can
>confirm this. With 350 MHz the search depth starts double digit most
>of the time!"
>
>Results of the engine seem to support the claim that it is a very strong engine.
>However, when running it against Fritz 5 and especially Hiarcs on Junior
>platform I've got the impression that, fast as it may be, it is not intelligent
>enough... sometimes it seems to make moves that not even a patzer would make.

There are positions that every program does sometime moves that not even a
patzer would make.

I assume that you are talking about positions that Junior5 does mistakes and
other programs do not do mistakes.

Can you post some positions that you are talking about?

I assume that you are talking about the early stage of the opening.
It usually does not cause Junior problems against computers because usually
Junior is in book in these positions.

>
>It may go 2 or 3 plies ahead of Crafty or Fritz.. but at the detriment of
>position and basic chess rules.

The depth of Junior5 is not the number of plies.

The depth is something close to the number of captures+the number of threat
moves+2*the number of regular moves.

I do not think that it is tactically stronger than fritz5(The reason that it has
good results against computers is mainly positional reason).

Uri



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