Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:17:44 11/27/99
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On November 27, 1999 at 19:00:58, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On November 27, 1999 at 17:27:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 27, 1999 at 16:07:31, Amir Ban wrote: >> >>>On November 27, 1999 at 09:21:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On November 27, 1999 at 03:56:28, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >>>> >>>>>I just got it. My congratulations to Christophe. >>>>> >>>>>Enrique >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Just remember that this is a very 'special case'. CT isn't available to >>>>anyone, so the other commercials can't start their auto232 marathons to >>>>discover the 'holes' is must have. I think it is a lot easier to reach >>>>#1 if no one can test against you... >>>> >>> >>>Nothing special about this case. Every SSDF leader in the last three years got >>>there as a newly released program. >>> >>>Amir >> >> >>Actually you are probably 100% correct. The 'last released' is generally the >>best. > >In February '98, Fritz made it to the top of the SSDF list. From that moment >on, Mchess 8, Hiarcs 7 and 7.32, Junior 5 and Nimzo 99 and 7.32 came to life and >didn't reach the top. Being new and tuning is not enough. It takes more than >that, and Tiger has it. > >> Not that it really means a whole lot... be interesting to study some of >>the games to see how much the book helped, how much tuning helped, etc... >> >>The point of my comment is that until others can test against Tiger to see what >>it is doing, it will probably stay at the top. Once it is "out" everyone will >>catch on pretty quickly... > >Try... > >Enrique Wait until it starts playing on a server. I'll tell you what its weaknesses are... I can already tell you who knows nothing about king safety. Who doesn't know about outside passed pawns. Who doesn't know about pawn majorities. Who over-values passed pawns and makes mistakes as a result. I can tell you what I don't do very well either... All it takes is games...
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