Author: Amir Ban
Date: 16:16:24 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 17:52:59, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 18, 2000 at 17:07:28, Chessfun wrote: > >> >>Will the SSDF upgrade to the latest version of Junior 6 that >>is now available?. Will they also upgrade to Fritz 6a whenever >>it is released?. >> >>Is it taken for granted that when a manufacturer puts out a >>patch, bug fix or any upgrade that it is superior to the >>existing version.? > >In my experience, no. It doesn't make sense either to believe that in a few >weeks a programmer can make significant improvements. The case of Fritz 6a is an >exception. About Junior 6 and 6a, I don't really know and I have contradictory >information, one saying that is only a bug fix and then the email to registered >users saying it is stronger. Who knows. Amir could tell us. > >Enrique > It's a newer engine, with several improvements of search & eval over the original release. The changes are not major, but tested well to show an improvement. I froze the original J6 code on Nov 13th, so this patch represents about 2 months more work. We originally intended only to fix the known bugs, but we had some delays in organizing the patch, so once we got around to do it, we decided we will include the latest engine as well. SSDF do NOT yet have this 6a engine yet. They have what we originally intended to put in the patch, which was only the TB bug fix. Amir >>I ask the last question as Crafty is updated very regularly >>to fix various things and IMHO in Crafty's case the latest >>isn't always the best. >>Thanks.
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