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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