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Subject: Re: Junior 9 test (40'/40) 200 games

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 14:46:15 12/28/04

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On December 28, 2004 at 17:26:23, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On December 28, 2004 at 17:07:54, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>On December 28, 2004 at 15:26:16, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>Matches at 40’/40 + 40’/40 +40’ time control
>>>Junior9-GUI, ponder=off, 3-/4-men EGTB
>>>own books, no book learning, no learning
>>>on 4 Athlons 1.3/64 MB hash for all engines
>>>First defeat of Junior9 vs Shredder8 in this test.
>>>http://www.utzingerk.com/jun9_test.htm
>>>Kurt
>>
>>Kurt, Junior 9 is known as an aggressive engine, how do you find Shredder 8
>>handled this?  Did it attack aswell or defend defend defend and then finally win
>>in the endgame?
>
>
>      In my opinion there are different reasons why Shredder8
>      won this match: the German program is very good at defence
>      - stronger than Junior9 - knows more about pawn structures
>      and plays the endgame better than Junior9 ... and some pawns
>      given away by Junior9 did not bring the expected result -:)
>      Maybe the difference between these two very strong engines
>      will become smaller at longer time controls.
>      Kurt

Kurt, did you happen to notice which program was searching deeper?

Junior was 'known' as being the deepest searcher, but shredder 8 changed all
that, which searches deeper.



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