Author: blass uri
Date: 21:20:19 02/10/00
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On February 10, 2000 at 22:24:51, stuart taylor wrote: >On February 10, 2000 at 21:02:28, george m bodkin wrote: > >>THINKING OF GETTING JUNIOR6. HAS ANYBODY FOUND ANY BUGS YET? AND IS SO WHAT >>PROGRAM IS THE BEST TO BUY? > > >In the Cadaques tournament, it won decisively against 6 other top programs, it's >worsed score being 50%(against Hiarcs)-which would seem to mean that it is far >superior to ALL the others. This was even at 40 moves in 40 minutes-on 500 >mhz.and junior isn't the best at blitz. Even still, that little bit longer makes >it way and beyond! > But I don't understand why the same thing isn't happening in other >tournaments. I mean what's going on by Jorn Gronemans tournament? The results >seem a little strange. Maybe it's the older junior 6, or some other handicap. Or >very strange flukes. How many games did Junior play in Jorn Gronemans tournament? I guess that the number of games is clearly smaller relative to the number of games in Cadaques tournament. The difference between programs is not big enough to know by results of few games which program is better. >But if that is well answered up by someone, then it looks >like junior is top for serious play. > I'm also wondering why Dr. Hyatt feels that ferret is the best program,(under >deep blue) and how crafty won the tournament in which junior also took >part(didn't it-in the end?) Any answers to any of the above will be welcomed by >many. > S.Taylor. Junior also lost games in Cadaques tournament and it can happen in a tournament In the tournament that crafty won the only loss of Junior was with black against crafty. Junior also agreed to a draw too early against nimzo in this tournament when it had practical chances to win. Crafty is not a weak program and was not tested in the Cadaques tournament. It is not clear to me if Bob hyatt believe that Ferret is the best program. It has better rating than Junior in ICC but Ferret has an hardware advantage. Uri
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