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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger on the SSDF: the story.

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 02:43:53 09/27/99

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On September 27, 1999 at 04:36:23, Christophe Theron wrote:

>As Bertil answered in the other reply to your post, one of the SSDF tester, who
>just wanted at first to organize a tournament on slow computers, asked me for a
>version of Tiger.
>
>He tried my program and, apparently, found that it would be interesting to do
>more "serious" testing with it, that is to include it on the SSDF list.

it seems the guy was right. :-)))

>Unfortunately, all the SSDF guys who owned a 450MHz computer were very busy at
>this time (they had to finish the tests of the 4 programs that are currently on
>top of the list).

of course. these 4 programs are very important. they have been in the list
before. so it is VERY important to know if they again are top of the list.
:-)

>So the tester asked me if I agreed to have results of Tiger published for P90
>only, and to have the name "Tiger" appear instead of an anonymous number.
>
>I agreed, because I thought that tests on P90 only were better than nothing, and

right !


>I also thought I had nothing to lose.

yup.


>That's how Tiger 11.8, which was originally provided to this tester to play in a
>private tournament, made his way to the official SSDF list. :)

:-)))




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