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Subject: Re: Junior thoughts

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 02:13:55 07/13/04

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Hi Amir,

congratulations for the title and many thanks for your report and opinions about
the WCCC. Although I'm a Shredder-Fan I must admit that I am always stunned to
see with which style and force Junior manages to win. Although it feels like
your playing style is more unbalanced and less complete than that of Shredder
(you wrote it feels almost "perfect") I think you have discovered something
special, which other programs have not. I'm always impressed how Junior operates
with its major pieces against the enemy king especially in the late
midgame/beginning endgame. I think Junior knows a lot more how to exploit an
exposed king when the position is open and queens are still on board than other
programs do.

Some questions: Does you focus in your work especially on long time controls on
superfast machines? I ask since Junior 8 seems relatively better on longer time
controls than on blitz in contrast to Hiarcs 9 for example. Do you think that in
_evaluation_ there are things that work differently in blitz and in longer time
controls (for search it is obvious that there is a difference)?

regards Joachim



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