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Subject: Re: What happened to Junior and Amir

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 08:21:55 09/24/99

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On September 24, 1999 at 08:50:43, Amir Ban wrote:

>On September 23, 1999 at 21:07:20, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>
>>Having seen in the past many posts with Amir Ban's name, where is he these days.
>>Junior seems to be dead in the water.
>>
>>Any new version coming out soon. After that affair that happened at WCCC99 in
>>which he posted a few replies to Vincent Diep I think, I have neither seen hide
>>nor hair from him.
>>
>>He given up on junior and posting here ?
>>
>
>I'm still here. I read CCC, and I also post, though less than in the past.
>
>Junior was in the WCCC just 3 months ago in case you didn't notice. It's alive
>and well.

Definately.  It seems to be the program that most authors are saying "hmm, I
wish my results against _it_ were better."  That can't be bad! ;-)

>>Junior used to be mentioned all the time, now this program seems to be scraping
>>bottom of the current chess barrels.
>
>Why, because the author is not visible in CCC ? The released version Junior 5 is
>now a year old, but still in top ranks. We will release Junior 6 before the end
>of the year. I guarantee it will be interesting.
>
>Amir

I think CCC was spoiled for a while by having 3 chess software developers as
moderators, because there were many interesting computer chess posts by you,
Don, and Bruce during your collective sojourn.

Dave



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