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

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 17:44:54 12/28/04

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On December 28, 2004 at 20:29:03, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 28, 2004 at 17:46:15, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Junior was never known to be the deeper searcher.
>
>It was always known that depth in Junior has a different meaning.
>depth in shredder8 also has different meaning relative to depth in shredder7.04
>because (otherwise Shredder8 could be at least 100 elo stronger than
>Shredder7.04 based on the difference on their search depth).
>
>Uri


I realize that Shredder 8 is pruning A LOT more than shredder 7.04, but knowing
that,  the question would be,

who is pruning the most to get the furthest ahead?



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