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Subject: Re: In regards the the tiger versus crafty post bxa2 is sound!

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 01:24:08 08/14/00

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On August 14, 2000 at 03:11:11, pavel wrote:

>On August 14, 2000 at 02:47:26, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On August 13, 2000 at 23:38:14, Peter Kappler wrote:
>>
>>>On August 13, 2000 at 23:04:06, robert blackwell wrote:
>>>
>>>>People should check out a position more carefully before claiming a move is bad.
>>>>bxa2 in the position given in the earlier post is the right move and it is the
>>>>move nd5 which loses as it breaks the pin on the d file preventing bxb3! any
>>>
>>>
>>>[D]3r1rk1/2p1Rppp/p4n2/1p1b4/3P4/3B3P/PPPN2P1/4R1K1 b - - 0 1
>>>
>>>I think you might need to follow your own advice, because after Bxa2 b3 Bxb3
>>>Nxb3 Black is lost.
>>
>>
>>
>>Actually the line is much more complicated than that.
>>
>>I believe that Bxa2 indeed loses, but playing b3 just after Bxa2 apparently does
>>not work. It is much much more complicated and deep.
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>
>Hi theron,
>           I was wondering about when are you going to release your next
>chesstiger version?
>the only reason i didnt buy chesstiger ( before it even got released I did made
>up my mind to buy it though) because of many threads I read in this forum about
>the interface being "buggy", also ics option was indeen "very bad". I believe
>most programs have bugs more or less :), but the least the best :)
>
>But I am very very much willing to buy the next version, a less buggy version.
>
>hopefully & thankfully
>pavel
>
>ps, any plan for winboard version?

There are hardly any bugs in Rebel-Tiger. Besides of that a free update
is available.

Ed



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