Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:10:09 03/23/99
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On March 23, 1999 at 17:25:09, Karsten Bauermeister wrote:
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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)!
>>
>>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.
That's right. He deserves credits for that too.
> 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.
Fortunately enough, it did not happen. I don't like to fall in a stupid opening
trap, and I don't want to win by playing a cooked opening trap.
My original book knows some traps, but only to AVOID them. Never to play them.
Christophe
>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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