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Subject: Re: Junior 5 search? What is it doing?

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 16:21:27 02/08/99

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On February 08, 1999 at 07:31:54, Steve Maughan wrote:

>I have noticed that after every ply iteration Junior 5 'pauses' and displays
>something like '7. --' in the move being considered window.  The pause can be
>for as long as 5 seconds - especially in tactical positions. AFAIK no other
>program does this - at least not for as long.
>
>Does anyone know what it is doing?
>
>Could it be updating it's piece-square tables based upon the last iteration?
>What new information could it be assimilating.  Is it doing some form of Null
>move at the root?  I cann't see the benefit of this.
>
>Regards
>
>Steve Maughan


It's looking for a deep threat at the root.

Amir



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