Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 02:27:27 11/28/99
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On November 28, 1999 at 04:22:47, blass uri wrote: >On November 27, 1999 at 22:17:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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... > >There are public games from the ssdf games so you can look at them and see. >christophe knows that tiger is not close to be perfect and he has a lot to fix >so I do not think that knowing the problems of tiger it is going to help other >programs to be number 1 because it takes time to fix your program and the next >version of tiger is going to be better than them. > >Uri I suspect it is easier to catch up than to forge ahead. Dave
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