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Subject: Re: Major bug in Junior6?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 22:14:03 12/26/99

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On December 26, 1999 at 06:12:05, Chris Taylor wrote:

>On December 26, 1999 at 05:38:36, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On December 26, 1999 at 04:59:29, Chris Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>>>Can anyone confirm that it is impossible to let Junior6 analyze one or more
>>>>>games automatically, neither full analysis nor blundercheck?
>>>>>I tried this and no matter what time control you set (even 5sec per move) Junior
>>>>>starts at the end of the game you chose and does not go backwards, maximum I saw
>>>>>was 5 moves and rested then for hours (although 5sec was chosen). It is like
>>>>>infinite analysis. The same behaviour in Fritz6, the Fritz engine works fine but
>>>>>Junior fails again.
>>>>>
>>>>>Can anyone confirm this?
>>>>
>>>>Unfortunately yes. The engine is being called here in infinite analysis mode,
>>>>the wrong mode for this.
>>>>
>>>>Amir
>>>
>>>
>>>Till this is fixed, use an earlier gui, Junior 5 will do brilliantly.  Put J6
>>>into that and lo and behold analasis and blundercheck.
>>
>>
>>This is only a poor workaround since Junior5-GUI does not use tablebases!
>
>I have been playing automatches and both Junior 6 and Fritz 6 use the
>tablebases?
>  Think it is the engine that does the tb probes not the interface??
>
>Chris Taylor

Yes, you are right. What surprises me is that in F6 the automatic analysis with
the J6-engine does not work while it does with the F6 engine and the J6 engine
works fine with auto analysis within Nimzo7.32 too.

Perfect confusion.




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