Author: Pete Galati
Date: 13:55:40 09/12/99
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On September 12, 1999 at 13:06:11, Christophe Theron wrote: >On September 12, 1999 at 12:13:16, ROBERT FLINT wrote: > >>im wonder if anyone has chess tiger and can tell me if it is a good buy. i have >>chess tiger light and im wondering if this is chess tiger relative strength!! > >Hi Robert, I'm the author of both Chess Tiger and Chess Tiger Light. > >* The real Chess Tiger is MUCH stronger than the "Light" version. This has been >done on purpose, and is clearly stated in the commercial screen when you quit >the program. We wanted to allow people to try the look and feel of the program >before buying it. > >* CT Light plays probably at 1900 ELO on a fast PC, the current full strength >version is above 2500. BTW the new Chess Tiger will be a full Windows program, >so the graphical user interface will be better than what you have in CT Light. >You will also have many features that are missing in the "Light" version. > >* Yes I would say that Chess Tiger is a good buy. :) >In fact it WILL be a good buy, as the first commercial release we be out very >soon. To keep informed about what's going on with Chess Tiger, you can go to the >Rebel Home Page: > > http://www.rebel.nl/ > > >* If you want to have an idea of how Chess Tiger compares with current top-level >programs, you can visit the following sites: > > http://come.to/sccs (Shep's site) > http://open.konts.lv/usr/Didzis/index.html (Didzis site) > >You can also check what Chess Tiger did in the last World Computer Chess >Championship (Paderborn, June 99): > > http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~wccc99/ > > > >I hope this message is not going to be considered as a commercial announcement! >:) > > > Christophe If you try it and it's not in your preferred language that can be changed (I think it was the Options button) And for those who don't have Windows 95 or have an old unused machine sitting around doing nothing then Chess Tiger Light will also run in Dos 6.21 and does quite well there, my hats off to you for that one. I think it's a good program. Pete
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