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Subject: Re: Junior5 blind? Questioon for Uri

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 22:00:59 10/05/99

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On October 05, 1999 at 06:13:57, blass uri wrote:

>On October 05, 1999 at 01:14:03, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>I remember I have heard that Junior has problems with "winning" pawns on a2/a7
>>and h2/h7. I couldn't imagine. Now I have seen it with my own eyes:
>>
>>[Event "Chessnet"]
>>[Site "?"]
>>[Date "????.??.??"]
>>[Round "?"]
>>[White "King 2.55"]
>>[Black "Junior 5"]
>>[Result "*"]
>>[ECO "D49"]
>>[PlyCount "43"]
>>
>>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3
>>a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 Nxe5 12. Nxe5 axb5 13. Qf3 Bb4+ 14. Ke2 Rb8
>>15. Nc6 Bb7 16. Bf4 Qd7 17. Bxb5 O-O 18. Bxb8 Rxb8 19. Rhc1 Bd6 20. Kf1 Bxc6
>>21. Bxc6 Qa7 22. Rc2 *
>>
>>Now Junior5 takes the Ph2 and only is down with -1.00. After 23.g3 h5 (-1.32)
>>24.Kg2 Ng4 (-1.40) 25.Rd1 Rf8 (-1.55)
>>
>>Black has some problems getting the bishop back into the game...
>>
>>So Uri, what does your latest Junior version (5.9?) play, also take the pawn?
>
>Junior5.9 plays at 120/40(actually 120/19) on p200 Rc8 1.13/16 with the main
>line a4 Bxh2... but is smart enough to avoid Bxh2 after a4 happens in the game.
>
>It needs less than 1 minute to see that Bxh2 is bad after a4 and prefers another
>move(Junior5.0 can also avoid Bxh2 after a4 by search but cannot do it before
>a4)
>
>Junior5.9 did not like 22...Bxh2 from the first second.
>
>I could produce 22...Bxh2 with Junior5.9 only at 10 minutes/40 moves when
>it changed its mind at depth 13 to Bxh2 but at 20 minutes/40 moves it jumped
>from depth 12 to depth 14 and never considered Bxh2 as best.
>
>Junior5.9 is not perfect in avoiding Bxh2 moves but is clearly better in it
>relative to Junior5.
>
>After 22..Rc7 23.a4 Junior5.9 suggested at 120/40 Rc7 and the evaluation
>drpopped to 1.30 pawns for white.
>
>I used the watch command and Bxh2 is always in the first 14 best moves
>so Junior avoids Bxh2 by some positional knowledge
>
>The difference between Bxh2 and the best move is small(always less than 0.2 pawn
>and sometimes less than 0.1 pawn)
>
>Uri


After Bxh2 g3 crafty has white ahead by +2.0

instantly...



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