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Subject: Re: CM 6000 AND NUNN TEST POSITIONS

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:50:56 12/08/98

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On December 08, 1998 at 15:17:34, Laurence Chen wrote:

>I am getting pretty tired of hearing all the praises for CM 6000 engine. And the
>fact it is beating Junior 5 does not prove to be a superior engine. I believe
>that the test which James Walker is a little biased towards CM, Junior is being
>handicapped by having the FS mode turned on, which the default setting for
>Junior would have it off.




I do not understand what do you mean by FS mode turned on.
I thought that he used the default setting for Junior5.





 We all want a strong chess engine, no doubt, but chess
>engine gets stronger with each new release, and there are plans for a new Fritz
>6 sometime next year, and who knows what other new engines are being improved
>with each passing year. Millenium is coming out soon, the Chess Genius family. I
>don't like CM engine family because of its style or personality of playing. I
>prefer a more agressive chess engine which would creates problems than a engine
>which plays the board and not the man. I believe that Fritz/Junior has the
>ability to "bluff", that is borrowing a poker term, these two engines have the
>ability to create situations where it can have some psychological impact on the
>human opponent.

I think that Junior5 plays the board and does not play the opponent.

It did a short draw against comet32(p90) in the ssdf games exactly because of
this reason.

Uri




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