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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger 14.0 (for ChessBase) has an enormous bug

Author: sean

Date: 20:47:59 07/10/01

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>>On July 09, 2001 at 15:04:13, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>>It is a conscient choice I have made in order to speed up some low material
>>>endings.
>>>I have never reported a single problem because of this choice in a REAL game.
>>>However I have got repeated complains from people who tried to make the program
>>>solve STUDIES or PROBLEMS.
>>>This is going to be improved in Chess Tiger 15.
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>>>When will tiger 15 be released, and will it be a free update too? I would expect so since 14 has so many problems.
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>> But what, if you imagine that Tiger
>>reaches the winning side of these examples (I saw three of them in the last 2
>>days). That looks ugly.
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>It looks ugly, but I have never seen it in a real game.
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>OK, that looks ugly.
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>>These are just "simple" positions (like they could be used i.e. in beginners
>>books to learn basic tactical elements, or during the analysis of a real game),
>>not sophisticated studies or problems...
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>Yes, that's right.
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>This design problem has been reported to me probably 20 to 30 times since the
>release of CT14. I have stopped counting since.
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>>What about a *patch*, to cure serious problems of version 14.0, i.e. make 14.1?
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>>People are going to ask for a patch. I want to explain: Now, that you have made
>>this excellent, successfull program which can win GM tournaments, the demand for
>>perfection will be even louder than before.
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>Mmh... The demand for perfection has always been there, believe me. :)
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>There is no patch scheduled. The next thing that will come out of the Chess
>Tiger lab is Chess Tiger 15 (not counting the Palm versions).
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>    Christophe



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