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Subject: Re: Junior 5.0 vs Phalanx XX

Author: brian robson

Date: 06:53:22 01/19/99

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On January 18, 1999 at 23:06:29, Anatoli wrote:

>Hi !
>Yesterday I organized a 20 minute Nunn match between Junior 5.0 and the new
>engine Phalanx XX. Junior won +15-2=3. Is this new Phalanx soo weak ?!
>Plus Phalanx played some 5 min.games against Fritz 5.32. In every game Fritz had
>absolutely losing position but as it turned out Phalanx can't win with one
>bishop or 2 extra pawns.


Phalanx is a reasonably strong program. I organized a 6 games match between
chessmaster 6000 and Phalanx XX with a timing of 10 0 recently and chessmaster
won 3.5-2.5 . That was a good score for a freeware. In one of the game Phalanx
managed to crush Chessmaster within 30 moves!.



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