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Subject: Re: About Junior 8

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 18:02:43 06/26/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 20:01:55, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On June 26, 2003 at 08:37:39, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On June 26, 2003 at 07:35:44, Mike Hood wrote:
>>
>>>On June 25, 2003 at 13:28:58, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 25, 2003 at 13:20:35, Maury Schwenkler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 25, 2003 at 09:44:47, Dimitris Poulos wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I noticed that Chessbase gives a new Junior 8/Deep Junior 8( some days ago). But
>>>>>>it is only the eng file. Wouldn't it be better if it was giving the supporting
>>>>>>dll too?
>>>>>>Me I don't have Junior 8. Isn't it pity to buy it just to play some
>>>>>>engine-engine matches? If someone from Chessbase is reading this message, please
>>>>>>consider to give for free the engines.
>>>>>>Dimitris
>>>>>
>>>>>I agree with you, so, I copied and renamed my Junior 7 dll to Jr_80.dll.  Now
>>>>>the engine will run, although I don't know if it is the same strength as it
>>>>>would be with the real dll.
>>>>
>>>>It is the same as Junior7
>>>>The .dll file is the engine and not the .eng file.
>>>>I know that when I tested Junior5.x, Amir sent me .dll files and not .eng file.
>>>
>>>This can't be correct for Junior 8. The .eng files MUST be the engines, because
>>>those are the files that Chessbase offered for the engine upgrades.
>>
>>
>>Engines upgrades?
>>
>>I do not know about engine upgrade of Junior8.
>>There was only losing on time problem that was fixed that may be a problem of
>>the connection between the engine and the interface.
>>
>>I guess that the interface sent the Junior engine wrong information about time
>>or about number of moves.
>
>Given that it was J8 that was updated, not the interface, a more logical guess
>would be that the information sent was correct but that it was not processed
>correctly.
>
>Dave

You may be right but the point is that the .dll file was not changed.
I think that the part that was changed was a part that was not responsible for
generating moves.

Maybe the right name is not the interface but it was not the engine.

Uri



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