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Subject: Re: New setting for chess tiger

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:15:02 05/19/00

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On May 19, 2000 at 00:47:18, robert michelena wrote:

>After 174 games in Yahoo advanced 1 against primarily fritz6a, chessmaster 7000
>and a few junior6a and tigers, the new settings seem to make tiger more
>aggressive and the results so far are superior to my old settings
>
>new settings:
>
>ct.ini:
>
>risksel=2
>
>
>Tiger interface; extra; advanced:
>
>contempt   15  (positive, not negative)

This is not a good setting.  Against lower-rated computers you are going to
draw way too often.  And if _they_ set the contempt positive, you will draw
most games.  This would be the right setting when playing a higher-rated
computer, but probably not a lower-rated one...




>
>
>Old settings:
>
>ct.ini:
>
>risksel=0 (default)
>
>Tiger interface; extra; advanced:
>
>contempt  -15.
>
>
>So far, tiger is toying around with junior6a, nimzo 732 and chessmaster 7000 on
>a pentium III 500 and athlon 750, 133 fsb motherboard.  My hardware is 450 amd
>k6 2 128mb ram.
>
>Will keep all you tigger fans posted.  So far so good.



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