Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:51:52 10/10/99
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On October 10, 1999 at 15:35:53, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>On October 10, 1999 at 14:14:07, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 10, 1999 at 13:50:48, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>
>>>On October 10, 1999 at 12:28:45, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hola Enrique:
>>>>¿Y qué hay del estilo de este Tigre? Yo tengo una version antigua, 11,X, que
>>>>tiene ciertas debilidades en el manejo de peones. Pero esta nueva parece muy
>>>>superior. Cuéntanos algo.
>>>>Fernando
>>>>
>>>>Brief translation:
>>>>Mainly just asking Enriqte to talk us about the style of Tiger.
>>>
>>>Sorry, I have no time to talk about anything. While Tiger and F532 are starting
>>>the last game (4.5-2.5 for Tiger so far), I am using an Olivetti Quaderno (8086)
>>>for my own stuff. :(
>>>
>>>After the matches are done we can talk about all this.
>>>
>>>Enrique
>>
>>
>>Ah, you have a quaderno too? I have one (20Mb).
>>
>>Unfortunately month after month every part of it broke down. First the AC
>>adapter, then the batteries, then the hard disk controller. I kept on playing
>>games with Tiger against human players at my chess club, but I had to boot with
>>a floppy.
>>
>>Then some of the keys stopped working. I could go on playing by using some Ctrl-
>>keys (like Ctrl-M instead of the defective Enter). You can imagine the trouble
>>when you play blitz games! :)
>>
>>At the end it would not even turn on.
>>
>>So now it's sleeping, probably forever, in my office. I've been able to use it
>>for only two years, which is quite sad. I loved it, really.
>
>My Quaderno, also 20MB, works perfectly. I never use it... :) Yes, it looks
>great and I loved it too. But it doesn't talk to anything I have.
>
>>Now the Palm IIIx is my favorite companion. Much better, I would say. And it has
>>a much faster processor.
>
>My favorite is my portable HP, but now it's taken 24 hours a day.
>
>Enrique
Portables are great, but a computer you can carry in your pocket is really
handy. I have all kind of things in my Palm, including a spreadsheet (and I
really use it!).
>PS. Congratulations. You wrote the strongest by far comp-comp program there is.
>I don't know against humans, but why should it be any different?
>
>It is not very active, it likes to play cat and mouse without doing much until
>it sees something in the search, but it is very efficient. I start thinking of
>it as the opposite of CST in every way. I guess that if someone likes CST or
>Mchess won't like Tiger so much, and viceversa. Do you agree? Now that I think
>of it, Thorsten likes both, CST and Tiger, so I may be wrong.
Actually the text mode version you have does not let you adjust the
"agressivity" factor (there are several settings the text mode version has no
access to). The commercial version will let the user turn this knob all the way
up. Tiger with agressivity set to the maximum is a different beast and plays
differently. Less accurate but much more entertaining. And dangerous for a human
player (probably not against computers). I have not enough samples to be sure,
but I would say that the agressivity factor together with the "anti-human" mode
(a little bit like Rebel's "anti-GM") could be the best setting when playing
against humans. CSTal fans will like it, no doubt.
Future customers will be able to play with this setting, and they'll tell me
what they think about it... I promiss a lot of fun!!!
Christophe
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