Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 23:00:22 11/18/99
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On November 19, 1999 at 01:12:52, Charles Unruh wrote:
>On November 18, 1999 at 19:15:48, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 18, 1999 at 18:42:42, Charles Unruh wrote:
>>
>>>Theories on Tiger's success. No book learning, no anti-prog x play(?)? It is
>>>Amazing that it appears that tiger 12.0 could end up being 30 to 40 points
>>>higher rated than any other program, without book learning or optimizations
>>>against the vatious programs. I haven't got around to testing my tiger 12, but
>>>it's the results are good enough evidence for me.
>>
>>
>>Charles, I have said this several times already:
>>
>>* I don't tune my program against other commercial programs. I almost never play
>>Autoplayer games.
>
>"It is Amazing that it appears that tiger 12.0 could end up being 30 to 40
>points higher rated than any other program, without book learning or
>optimizations"
>I have only one autoplayer cable at home, I use it sometimes
>>to make sure that Auto232 still works in my DOS version.
>>
>>* I don't have many of the top programs. I don't have Nimzo, I don't have
>>Hiarcs, I don't have ChessMaster 6000, I don't have Shredder. When I play games
>>against commercial programs, it's always manual games, never more than 4 in one
>>day, and it's always against Genius5 and Fritz2.
>>
>>* Tiger's book learning is almost nonexistent. Tiger just avoid repeating lost
>>games. Tiger is unable to repeat a won or a draw game, except by pure luck. I
>>admit this is maybe a mistake, I might change my mind in a future version.
>
>"It is Amazing that it appears that tiger 12.0 could end up being 30 to 40
>points higher rated than any other program, without book learning or
>optimizations"
>>
>>* Chess Tiger has been developped by playing against human players at my chess
>>club here in Guadeloupe. I have always used slow computers like 286 12MHz and
>>386sx 20MHz.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>
>I wasn't accusing anything, I just asked if anyone had any theories on tigers
>success.
OK, sorry.
Christophe
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