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Subject: Re: Hunting Hydra

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 10:19:49 06/27/05

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On June 27, 2005 at 10:56:28, Uri Blass wrote:


>It was not a non stable version but a version with bugs.
>The reply to your question why was already given.
>
>SMK did not know that it is buggy version.

In fact in a thread below Sandro stated it was a beta version that had bugs. And
that it was 150 elo weaker. One _has_ to assume that they _knew_ it was beta,
and that it had bugs.

>Junior is a positional program?

Yes it is. Junior and Hiarcs are probably the best positional chess programs
around.


>I do not believe it for a moment.
>Junior is a fast searcher.

Exactly. Faster search = deeper depth = more positional play.

>Fast searcher cannot have a lot of knowledge in it's evaluation so Junior >cannot be a positional program.

Programs can become positional without knowledge but by deeper search. This has
been stated many times on this very board.

Hiarcs has a great amount of knowledge but is a slower searcher. Junior doesn't
have the knowledge but makes up for it with an incredibly fast search.

Peter



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