Junior 5 !
Dirk Frickenschmidt
Since some days I test the new Junior5 32-bit (Fritz-)engine.
I run all tests on two Pentium 200MMX machines with 64Mbyte Ram each.
To make it short: Amirs new version is a marvellous chess program, not
only considerably better than Junior 4.6, but also a real challenge to
*all* programs I use (Fritz5, Hiarcs6, Rebel9, Mchess 7.1, Genius5,
Shredder2, Crafty 15.x etc.).
It has become very fast and very good in tactics, and, what surprises
me much more, most times also plays positionally sound attacking
chess, even on blitz level.
I hardly could believe to see it score around 70-% in some dozens of
autoplayer Blitz games against top opponents like Genius5 (very good
in Blitz), Mchess 7.1 and others.
Of course it owes all its chess understanding to the autoplayer, just
as Fritz5 before :-)
Here two nice examples from the 10'/game matches, showing some of
Juniors well developed positional skill:
Junior5 - Genius5 [D46]
Blitz:10' Wuppertal, 22.08.1998
[DF]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.0-0 e5 8.cxd5
cxd5 9.e4 dxe4 10.Nxe4 Nxe4 11.Bxe4 exd4 12.Bc2 0-0 13.Qd3 Nf6 aus dem
Buch 14.Bg5 Re8 15.Bxf6 Qxf6 16.Qxh7+ Kf8 17.Rad1 Bc5 18.Qh5 b6 19.Ng5
Ke7 20.Nh7 Qh6 21.Qe5+ Kd8 22.Qd5+ Bd6 23.g3 Rb8 24.Ng5 Rb7 25.Rxd4
Rd7 26.Nxf7+ Rxf7 27.Qxf7 Bd7 28.Rfd1 Re6 29.Bf5 Re7 30.Qg8+ Kc7
31.Qc4+ Bc6 32.Qa6 Bb7 33.Qxa7 Re5 34.Rc4+ Rc5 35.Rxc5+ bxc5 36.Be4
Qe6 37.Qxb7+ Kd8 38.Qxg7 Ke8 39.Qh8+ Kd7 40.Qh7+ Kd8 41.Bf5 Qe7 42.Qh4
Qxh4 43.Rxd6+ Ke7 44.Re6+ Kf7 45.gxh4 c4 46.h5 c3 1-0
Hiarcs6 - Junior 5 [C18]
Blitz:10' Wuppertal, 24.08.1998
[DF]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qc7 7.Qg4 Ne7
8.Bd3 cxd4 9.Ne2 dxc3 10.Qxg7 Rg8 11.Qh6 Nbc6 12.f4 Rxg2 13.Kf1 Rg8
14.Nxc3 Nd4 15.Nb5 Nxb5 16.Bxb5+ Bd7 17.Bd3 Ba4 18.Ra2 Nf5 19.Qxh7
0-0-0 20.Qh5 d4 21.Rg1 Rxg1+ 22.Kxg1 Rg8+ 23.Kf2 Ne3 24.Bxe3 dxe3+
25.Kf3 Bc6+ 26.Kxe3 Qb6+ 27.Kd2 Rg2+ 28.Be2 Qd4+ 29.Kc1 Qe3+ 30.Kb2
Rxe2 0-1
Hiarcs6 was the only program hitting back equally hard at times. As I
said, Junior5 lost only around 30% of the games against the top
programs.
This encourages me to begin a new small welcome tournament with two
tournament games each (40/2h, white and black) against the programs
listed above (plus one or two others).
I'll post some of these autoplayer tournament games here soon.
Comments are welcome...
Kind regards
from Dirk
Har...@t-online.de
quoting a mail from DFricke...@w-i-s.net concerning Junior 5 !
> Since some days I test the new Junior5 32-bit (Fritz-)engine.
> I run all tests on two Pentium 200MMX machines with 64Mbyte Ram each.
Where the hell do you all get the Junior5-beta from?? Or is it the final
which is released now?
> To make it short: Amirs new version is a marvellous chess program, not
> only considerably better than Junior 4.6, but also a real challenge to
> *all* programs I use (Fritz5, Hiarcs6, Rebel9, Mchess 7.1, Genius5,
> Shredder2, Crafty 15.x etc.).
Junior4.6 was/is strong enough to compare with the other top programs. it
plays marvellous.
> Of course it owes all its chess understanding to the autoplayer, just
> as Fritz5 before :-)
Is it now possible to play the other engines with autoplayer too?
Harald Faber
Dirk Frickenschmidt
Hi Harald,
I'm using the new Fritz5-surface for 32-bit engines with the new
Junior5 enginge as beta tester. You will soon be able to use it too:
It will appear in connection with Junior next month (September),
as Chessbase announced on their web site.
The 32-bit engine is a little bit stronger in blitzing even than
Fritz5 and much stronger than many other programs.
It looks to me as if it also plays strong tournament chess.
By the way Shay Bushinsky announced that Junior will play GM Yudasin
today until August 28th (two tournament games, 4 rapid games). Live
coverage on ICC.
Kind regards
from Dirk
Har...@t-online.de
quoting a mail from DFricke...@w-i-s.net concerning Re: Junior 5 !
> I'm using the new Fritz5-surface for 32-bit engines with the new
> Junior5 enginge as beta tester. You will soon be able to use it too:
> It will appear in connection with Junior next month (September),
> as Chessbase announced on their web site.
OK, you answered one of my questions. Where are the other answers? ;-)
Please read below.
Dirk Frickenschmidt
Hi Harald,
of course I knew what you and others probably would like to know most
of all :-)
As far as I heard there is a good chance that Fritz5-32 with Junior5
will contain an autoplayer device. Wait and see...
If so, I will appreciate it, and I guess anybody will...
Kind regards
from Dirk