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Subject: Re: When will you release your next version of Rebel Tiger ?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 15:24:24 07/17/00

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On July 17, 2000 at 13:15:03, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On July 17, 2000 at 09:57:56, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>It seems on Chess servers like ICC of FICS, the Rebel Tiger clones are very hard
>>to beat ( Although Gandalf has a some what easy time vs them ). Using Junior 6.0
>>engine, I lose quite a bit to them.
>>
>>Perhaps they could have a better score vs grandmasters at a tounament?
>
>
>There is a special "antihuman" mode in Rebel-Tiger that is used by -apparently-
>nobody. It does better than the standard "personality" against humans because it
>knows how to handle "closed positions" better, if you know what I mean.
>
>This special mode will be further improved in the next release of the engine.
>
>This mode does not work as well against computers because sometimes the program
>takes too much risk in order to avoid a closed position, and the strategy can
>backfire in this case. So people do not use antihuman mode on chess servers,
>because you find too many computers there.
>
>Unfortunately there as been so far too few games against strong rated humans to
>give any measure of Tiger's strength against GMs.
>
>
>
>
>    Christophe

Is your next version of Rebel Tiger almost finish ?



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