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Subject: Re: Junior 8 - Not impressed at all....

Author: Jonas Bylund

Date: 13:54:27 06/26/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 16:42:53, Peter Skinner wrote:

>I have been using Junior 8 on FICS now for the last few weeks, and I have so say
>I am VERY disappointed with it.

>After about 250 games with it vs all the computer programs on there, it has a
>record of +99 =11 -140.
>
>I am using a PIV 2.0 Ghz, 512 megs ram, Windows Xp... using 64 megs for hashing,
>32 megs for endgame tables.

:) with that setup any engine would dissapoint.....

>I find it loses most of it's games in the latter stages of games. Shredder seems
>to outplay it effortlessly, as well as do most of the Crafty clones on there,
>and that puzzles me. Junior was one of the best in the endgame.

What did you expect?? newest engine=more rating on MY server??

>Results with Fritz 8 has been almost the opposite. It is doing very well using
>the 8.0.23 engine.

Try LONG games.

>Does anyone know why Junior 8 is doing so badly?

Well here it does WELL to put it mildly :) maybe my dual helps :)

>I must say most of the games are at a blitz time control, usually 5 3 games.

Well....

>I also know I am using slower hardware than most of the dual athlons on there.

:)

Jonas



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