Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:12:24 03/14/00
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On March 14, 2000 at 21:00:20, robert blackwell wrote:
>Hello everyone! I received chess tiger today and i am very impressed. i played
>it against my chessmasters, rebels, hiarcs, m-chess, and fritz 5.32. Generally
>it did very well beating chessmasters and rebels and drawing mchess a few then
>various wins and draws against haircs and fritz, and then a few loses. All this
>is expected. Though what i found strange was when i played, we entered a petroff
>defense, and after 30 moves,15 of which were book we both new, i offered to
>liquidate the position into a drawn bishop vs knight ending. What surprised me
>is that tiger did??. The reason i am shocked is that i never draw chessmaster,
>hiarcs, rebel, or even mchess. I am rating about 1975 elo. A mere expert. This
>seems strange to me, can anyone elaborate. The games were played of pentium
>333,s 64 megs of ram. All in all i am totally impressed with tiger, but i would
>like to know how to make him take out the teeth and claws, i realise that one
>game is only one game,...but the point i am trying to make is if tiger had tried
>to beat me, it would have easily, i gave me the respect i didnt deserve. Is the
>contempt factor use to add aggression? Thank you:>
It's the first time a customer complains because the product shows too much
respect! :)
Actually Tiger always expect his opponent to be a very tough one. After all, you
could have been Kasparov, Bronstein, or a multiheaded Junior or Fritz. Tiger
cannot be sure you are not one of these. So it decided to play it safe.
If you want it to be more agressive, you can do 2 things:
1) set the "score for a draw" to a reasonnable negative value. If you play
against it, -50 (half a pawn) is OK. Against other strong programs, -10 (a tenth
of a pawn) is more reasonnable. This setting is in "Extra->Options->Advanced".
2) In the same page, you can check the "Anti-human play" box. With this, Tiger
will avoid to fall into anticomputer strategies.
I'm glad to know you are now in the club of Tiger users! ;)
Christophe
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