Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 11:11:54 08/30/03
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On August 30, 2003 at 12:34:24, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I don't know if you get this show in Israel, but "Timmay" is a charcter in a demented comedy cartoon programme called "South Park"....which I enjoy, from time to time:o) However, I wouldn't take any advice from a handicapped 8 year old cartoon character from South Park who sits in a weelchair singing his name, "Timmay" with a group of other cartoon characters who play in a band named "The Lords of The Underworld"! ROTFL!
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