Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 01:06:56 05/24/98
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On May 23, 1998 at 18:32:09, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On May 23, 1998 at 16:50:38, Georg Langrath wrote: > >>Now and then I read about Chess Tiger. But what peogram is it? Have I >>misssed something important? >> >>Georg > >Yes. Chess Tiger is a "new" amateur program by Christophe Theron. >It participated in Paris 1997 and was not very succesful. >Since this time Christophe worked a lot on it, as he told me, night and >day, and suddenly it developed into a real tiger. >In paderborn 1998 it participated and would have been able to win the >tournament. Only 1/2 point was needed in the last round. > >It showed brilliant games against Nimzo, Clever+smart, comet, Zugzwang, >Conners ... > >But in the last round it had to fight against Gandalf, a program that >can do wonders. Gandalf is always good to kill a leader. >Indeed gandalf stopped tiger with a furious attack and so the strongest >program, nimzo98(paderborn-version) won, followed by Clever+smart (2 >kind of shredders coordinated by a special algorithm) . > >1.Nimzo98 5 points >2.Clever+smart 5 points >3.ChessTiger 4.5 points >4.PConners 4.5 points >5.Gandalf 4.5 points >6.Zugzwang 4.5 points >7.comet 4.0 points >8.diep 4.0 points >9.ant 3.5 >10.amy3 3.5 >11.sos 3.0 >12.xxxx2 3.0 >13.0patzer 2.0 >14.breakthrough 2.0 points >15.neurologic 1.5 points >16. diogenes 1.5 points > >Zugzwang run on 44 powerMACs. PConners = parallel controlled conspiracy >number search. >The programs NOT using special hardware were able to get a p2/266 with >64 MB. > >If you are interested we can post some nice games and comment on them. >This german tournament is maybe not well-known and maybe some people >here would like to know about some of the amazing games. > >There was a lot of fun. >And I tried to stop Nimzo from winning the tournament without losing one >game, because I operated ChessTiger. > >But chrilly was brilliant and nobody could stop him, like he has done in >the netherland championships. > >We all had much fun... Thank you. Very interesting. I think that many members here would be intersted to see some games. Perhaps you could post some of them here as pgn-files? Georg
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