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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger?

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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