Author: Claude Le Page
Date: 13:47:58 08/23/03
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Hello Uri!
first I thank you for your posts: they are the most useful aid I received
about this problem
on my side i will bring you all the answers you want
1 I was a customer of the bookshop "damier de l'opera" - one of the 3 most
important chess shops in France
I ordered junior7 at the same time as shredder and young talents on monday
3 march 2003 and received it on saturday 8 march
I call it junior7 , because the CD was in a package junior7:
I had no reason to suspect anything
only when I compared the perfomances of "X" with those described in
litterature I understood that I had not got a standard junior7
I made several hypotheses , the most likely was that of an evolution of
junior7 between 2001 and 2003
after what you say , I must think of an error of copy: to fulfill an order,
they copied the wrong program, i-e that of a program in developpement;
now , are there other CD of this program, I don't know
on the "forum du fou numérique" I launched a call ,but nobody told me that his
junior7 was like mine
2 when I received junior8 , I could not compare "X"(if you prefer so) and
junior8, because a problem of hashtables too big for the RAM
when I could do it, I was struck by the similarity of performance but also by
the difference of styles:
that of junior8 is solid, comparable to that of shredder
on the contrary the syle of "X" is wonderful:it launches a mating attack
as soon as it's possible ;the other program grab a pawn or apiece, and win with
this advantage ,"X" develops a mating attack in a style tha may be compared
with Morphy,Keres or Tal
I published some on unorthodox chess openings and "le forum du fou numérique"
if you want, I send you some of the best, but I am 76 and very slow to type,
so it may take some days
3 the rason why I have so much interest for "X" is its pedagogical value
a bad move is punished by a mate ,what is more instructive
Llas , I shall be the lone to profit of this wonder whe I wish to see
thousands of samples of it in the hands of the beginners (and the others too)
friendly Yours
Claude Le Page
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