Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:34:42 04/14/02
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On April 14, 2002 at 14:38:06, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 14, 2002 at 13:57:07, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On April 14, 2002 at 12:50:25, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>Yes, Fritz7 is great. >>> >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >> >>The big question that's in a lot of people's minds (I'll bet) is how Chess Tiger >>15 will compare in strength to Fritz 7b. >> >>One thought is that you are not likely to release it until you are sure it's >>stronger. If that's true, it will be very exciting. >> >>On the other hand, you are probably in the later stages of the development of CT >>15 (I won't ask WHEN you will release it -- enough people ask that already!) and >>you already know it's clearly stronger than CT 14. Maybe you will decide that's >>enough and NOT spend (waste?) months testing it against Fritz 7b, but rather >>decide to release it based on its own merits and let the people test it against >>Fritz (and you could always release v15.01 later as an update). >> >>The big mystery -- and only YOU know the answer! :-) > > > >The answer is clear: I do not have Fritz7 and I will NOT test against Fritz7. > >As I said many times before, I don't try to improve Tiger by letting it play >against its probable future opponents. > >Anyway it would be a complete waste of time. > >I do not have Junior, I do not have Fritz, I do not have Shredder, and so on... > >I usually play against Genius5 on 386sx20MHz, when I have the time. > > Christophe, I hope you know that I am not challenging you and am not antagonistic to you at all! :-) I am curious sometimes about specific things and I ask questions, but I do not wish to appear to be challenging you. I ask questions and I learn from the answers. (I've annoyed people that way since I was very young.) You said, "I don't try to improve Tiger by letting it play against its probable future opponents." I actually did not remember heaving heard this before. I'm just curious why you think it would be a waste of time -- if Fritz 7 is the current champ, wouldn't you be curious how your new and improved program would fare against it, or to see the moves of any games in which Tiger might lose? (Would it be different if you had a couple "extra" equal-speed computers on which to run these contests?) As far as Genius 5 on 386sx20, do you mean you run both programs on that platform and look at what percentage Tiger wins, using improvement there as one gauge of its strength? Or do you mean you play against Genius personally for fun? (Or are you referring to using it as an opponent for the Palm version of Chess Tiger?) Your great success in your field speaks for itself (not to mention the fact that you read and post here at all!). I hope it's OK for me to ask these questions without seeming antagonistic. Thank you, -Roy.
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