Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:34:24 08/30/03
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On August 30, 2003 at 11:48:30, Timmay wrote: >I agree with Garry's assessment (this is coming from a National Master by the >way email me for my information if you want to). First of all I think Junior 7.0 >is stronger than Junior 8.0, its more realistic, more useful in analysis. I am surpruised to read it because Junior8 beated Junior7 in the ssdf games and it seems to be better than Junior7 based on results that I read against other programs. It may be interesting to see specific examples(positions when you found that Junior7 is better) inspite of the fact that the positions from your experience do not prove that you are right(see explanation later). Same for Tiger14 and Tiger15. I am not a master. My last israeli rating that is equivalent to Fide rating is 1997 but I think that I cannot trust opinions of masters about players that are stronger than them. I believe that there are a lot of positions that you do not know the best move (otherwise you could be better than master) so you cannot know which program suggests better move. You may know about specific cases when Junior7 suggest better moves than Junior8 but they do not prove that Junior7 is better than Junior8 and it is possible that other positions are more important. <snipped> > I think the best code anyone can put >in their program once the initial program is set is "mobility"! The best >programs believe in that a lot. I agree that mobility is important in chess. As a programmer of a program that is still significantly weaker than Junior or Fritz I know that increasing the score for mobility is one of the things that helped me to improve my program and I use only the number of moves to evaluate mobility so I am sure that there is a room for more improvement. Uri
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