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Subject: Re: Junior 5 vs Fritz 5: Can someone explain the difference?

Author: Alessio Iacovoni

Date: 14:31:50 10/22/98

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On October 22, 1998 at 14:35:34, blass uri wrote:

>
>On October 22, 1998 at 14:15:48, Alessio Iacovoni wrote:
>
>>On October 22, 1998 at 11:21:49, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On October 22, 1998 at 10:44:08, Larry Field wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm looking for a chess program and have seen good reviews of both Fritz 5 and
>>>>Junior 5.  However I see that Junior 5 is a 32-bit version of the Fritz 5
>>>>"interface" and doesn't include some of the Fritz features (endgame and voice).
>>>>Can someone explain how these two programs work together or separately for me?
>>>>
>>>>Also, can Junior be played with the voice and endgame features?  Is it
>>>>necessary, for any reason, to own both Junior 5 and Fritz 5?
>>>
>>>Junior5 and Fritz5 are different programs.and do not play the same moves.
>>>If you want to analyse positions Fritz5 will give you sometimes different output
>>>from fritz5.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Larry Field
>>
>>Junior 5 at the moment has the most advanced and bug-free interface. It includes
>>Junior 5 and Crafty (two fast searchers) and optionally Fritz 5 or Hiarcs. It is
>>32 bit.. fast and will host also future 32 bit engines. As to the engines.. all
>>fast searchers are basically the same... Junior, Fritz (or even Crafty) are not
>>that different... so I'd suggest to go for the most advanced interface (at the
>>moment Junior 5). In the future you can still add Hiarcs, which is quite
>>different, has a very unique style of play and is pleasant to play with.
>
>I do not think that all the fast searchers are similiar.
>
>If Junior is more similiar to Fritz than to Hiarcs than it is easy to prove it.
>
>We can find how many times Junior5 suggest a different move from hiarcs6 and how
>many times Junior5 suggest a different move from Fritz5.
>
>It is interesting to do a list of distances between programs (the % of times
>they suggest different moves).
>
>If I have time I will do it for Fritz and Junior.
>
>Uri

That's a great idea Uri! I'm sure it'll turn out that i'm right and you're
wrong.



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