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Subject: Re: This Junior 8 Time bug is getting bad.

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 09:38:41 06/05/03

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On June 05, 2003 at 08:30:20, Ryan B. wrote:

>I have played 862 games vs. other engines now with Junior 8.  I'm not sure the
>percent of games lost on time but it has gotten so bad that even though it often
>outplays shredder 7 in mid game it is ranked below yace 99.56 and ruffian 1.0.1
>(all games for ruffian run from CB interface) due mostly to time losses.  Many
>of the losses seem to be on move 79 running tournament time controls.  I thought
>it could be an issue with the version of the CB interface so I went back and
>installed the shredder 7 interfaces to see if Junior 8 came with a faulty
>version of the CB interface.  This did not fix the issue.  Nothing against Yace
>and Ruffian, they are both great.  I just think for $50 Junior 8 should rank
>above then both and not have bugs with time management.  If anyone wants to seen
>blown end games or losses on time by Junior 8 I have plenty of examples I can
>post if anyone wants to see.  Hopefully a patch will come out soon and this
>problem will go away.
>

Please email the bad games to me, with description of machine & interface.

Thanks,
Amir




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