Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt
Date: 10:59:08 10/17/98
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On October 17, 1998 at 04:57:00, Alessio Iacovoni wrote: Hi Alessio, as Christophe Theron rightly claimed, it is not too decisive *how* a program reaches its playing strength, although fast searchers with strong tactics like Fritz5 or Junior5 are always convenient for a first tactical check when analyzing games. The thing I wonder about is your impression that Junior5 plays weak positionally while being fast: you know the old picture of the "stupid bean counters", which is still used by some. Now I did a lot of testing with Junior5 on a 200MMX, and I got just the opposite impression of what you got: while admittedly blundering just like any program I know from time to time (this definitely includes the so-called knowledge programs as well, and not only for tactical reasons but also for occasional weak positional play), I was *very* impressed by the versatile overall positional competence of Junior in all kinds of positions from opening to endgame. Perhaps you can post some of the weak moves you saw to make your point more concrete. Amir and Shay especially and anybody else using Junior will probably be interested. I am too: its always nice to know more about an interesting program. Regards from Dirk >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. > >It may go 2 or 3 plies ahead of Crafty or Fritz.. but at the detriment of >position and basic chess rules.
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