Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:32:42 10/19/98
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On October 19, 1998 at 10:31:25, Albert Silver wrote: >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 Sorry. I meant Alessio of course.
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