Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 11:00:48 06/27/05
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On June 27, 2005 at 13:19:49, Peter Skinner wrote: >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 Since Hiarcs has a great amount of knowledge making it slower than the rest of the programs, a SMP version of Hiarcs would be stronger than Shredder to competer against Hydra. Jorge
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