Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:31:25 10/19/98
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On October 19, 1998 at 09:31:30, Torstein Hall wrote:
>On October 19, 1998 at 01:32:53, Alessio Iacovoni wrote:
>
>>On October 18, 1998 at 19:58:20, Amir Ban wrote:
>>
>>>On October 18, 1998 at 18:21:46, blass uri wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have only Junior5(16 bit) and it does not love 1...Ng8-f6 or 2...Nf6-g8
>>>>Maybe there is some change from the beta version to the commercial version that
>>>>cause Junior5 to play this move
>>>>
>>>>I hope Amir Ban will answer.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>Alright:
>>>
>>>In a quick test I find that after 1.e4 it likes 1...d5, and after 2.e5 it likes
>>>2...Nd5. Perhaps other moves may show up at different time controls, but 2...Ng8
>>>seems odd: What was the time control and at what depth was it picked ?
>>>
>>>Amir
>>
>>Amir PLEASE forgive me.. CORRIGENDA! .The problem is not your engine.. but the
>>engine-engine feature of chessbase (yet another bug?). Don't ask me why but it
>>will make your program (10 min) make that strange alechine defence move and
>>other strange ones. I doublechecked playing without book in regular mode (not
>>engine-engine) and *of course* your engine will reply with regular moves (e5,
>>d5, ...) etc... Maybe you should ask chessbase to fix it - people might think
>>your engine has gone crazy... So now we know engine-engine tests in Junior 32
>>are NOT at all reliable...
>>
>>Just for your information the test was done with:
>>
>>8 meg cache
>>books off
>>default options
>>engine-engine mode (hiarcs 6.0-Junior 5)
>>
>>
>>The *crazy* moves were the following:
>>
>>1. e4 Nf6
>>2. e5 Ng8
>>etc...
>>
>>and in another game:
>>
>>1. e4 Nf6
>>2. e5 Nd5
>>3. c4 Nb6
>>4. c5 Nd5
>>5. Nc3 Nd5xc3
>>etc...
>>
>>(This one was strange.. it was playing a "standard" alechine... nothing wrong
>>with humans... but it's funny for a computer to play such an opening.
>
>In Junior 5 I belive there is a option for development,. Are you sure its on?
>
>Torstein
Alessandro, try again. I just ran the very same test and could not reproduce
your results. Junior played e5 after some thought and after first considering
1...Nf6.
Albert Silver
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