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Subject: Re: Big chesscomputer-tourney in Germany - final results

Author: Karsten Bauermeister

Date: 14:25:09 03/23/99

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>Marcus Kästner was operating my program Chess Tiger, version 11.7.5.
>
>Marcus has made an incredible job by building an 8Mb book for Chess Tiger (my
>orginal book is only 160Kb)!
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>The book is the obvious weakness of Chess Tiger. I think Marcus deserves credits
>for the good ranking of Tiger on an average computer in this tournament.
>
>
>    Christophe

Hi Christophe,

Marcus not only made a big book for chess Tiger! He played many games against
all possible opponents and tried to prepare Chess Tiger for them. Also the game
against Hiarcs 7, opened with 1.c3 was an attempt to crush Hiarcs. After the
first move Marcus came to me and told me, that Alwin Gruber, the operator of
Hiarcs did not know, he failed a mate in 21! Hiarcs has two moves for black.
1...e5 and 1...d5. On the played move, Marcus didn't prepare anything; but
forward to the other possibility, there would have been a spectacular win for
Chess Tiger.
But this is nothing to his behavior in the tournament: Marcus always is fighting
as playing himself for his life. He suffers like the programmer himself...

Karsten



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