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Subject: Re: An amazing Tiger-2-result!

Author: pavel

Date: 07:51:13 09/24/00

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On September 24, 2000 at 10:36:23, Harald Faber wrote:

>On September 24, 2000 at 10:26:18, pavel wrote:
>
>>On September 24, 2000 at 10:20:46, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>On September 24, 2000 at 10:10:01, Eddie wrote:
>>>
>>>>Did you play Tiger/K7-500 against Shredder4/K6-200 ??   These are two completely
>>>>different speeds of processor correct?   What kind of results would you expect
>>>>from such?!!    The faster the computer, the better the results is all this
>>>>means ........
>>>
>>>Yes, Tiger had the Athlon-500 and 96MB hash while Shredder had the K6-200 with
>>>24/8MB hash, g/120. As I said before, the first 7 games which Tiger played
>>>wihtout the London-book, Shredder won by 4.5-2.5 (+4 =1 -2) on the slower
>>>hardware!
>>>
>>
>>so you agree, its the book that did the trick not the engine :)
>>
>>Pavel
>>
>
>Only in a limited way, see my other post.
>Tiger did not win one game out of the book.
>Tiger is now out of book with positions Tiger is able to "understand" and win.
>I am sure that many other programs also would have lots of trouble with the
>small and unsound original book (AFAIK it is the LChess book), so no need to
>question Tigers performance and reduce it to book efforts.

ofcourse I am not underestimating its performance, as I have seen good number of
games played by it in chess servers (the beta version). And most of the games
were impressive.
 I have a very good number of its games saved in pgn formats, and I am kinda
studying the games with other programs.
well you can say its another kinda beta-testing ;))

Pavel



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