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

Author: pavel

Date: 07:57:10 09/24/00

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On September 24, 2000 at 10:32:27, Harald Faber wrote:

>On September 24, 2000 at 10:18:26, pavel wrote:
>
>>On September 24, 2000 at 02:26:26, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>sorry for not posting frequently but my time is limited...
>>>Besides some improvements in the GUI one expected a stronger engine for the new
>>>Tiger. You can imagine how astonishe I was when I played several games with the
>>>new Tiger/K7-500 against Shredder4/K6-200 (g/120) and Shredder led by 4.5-2.5
>>>after 7 games. Although I know how strong Shredder is even on tha slow
>>>200MHz-machine, but this result was unbelievable.
>>
>>it is not unbelievable, shredder 4 is still strong enough to be a threat to any
>>chess program in the world.
>
>
>No doubt, but on a much slower hardware (2.3x-2.6x) it is VERY unlikely that
>Shredder could have a chance to win even such a short match.
>
>
>> I was not sure if this was due
>>>to strange engine progress or due to the book. Because of some trouble getting
>>>the London-book started, in these 7 games the "original", small book was used.
>>>After these 7 games I stoped that match, I have seen enough. I managed to get
>>>the London-book to work finally successful. I started the match again, and what
>>>I say is just WOW! I have stopped the match at a standing of 5-0 for Tiger!
>>>Not even Tiger 12e crushed Shredder that clear. And look at the games, there are
>>>wins in the endgame although Shredder is said to be very strong in there and had
>>>access to all 5-man TBs!
>>>
>>>See the games below and enjoy!
>>>(And get eager for the new Tiger :-))
>>
>>yes and also get eager for the new shredder....
>
>
>Be sure I'll get the new Shredder and CM8000 too. :)
>
>
>>your 'experiment' proves only one thing. that is, tiger won only because of its
>>better book, since according to you tiger played much better when book has been
>>changed.
>
>
>Don't forget that the book counts to the program as well as the engine does.
>The book I used first was certainly a 2nd-class-one coming with the
>LChess-engine.
>And if you take a look at the games you will see that Tiger did not win the
>games because of winning lines out of the book, no way.
>
>
>>also note that shredder is one of those programs which plays *significantly*
>>better with faster processors, ( I think I read that several times somewhere in
>>this forum). In same hardware things could be differant.
>
>
>I didn't say that Tiger crushed Shredder on same hardware.
>However, it is not common that Shredder4 got crushed by 5-0 on my 200MHz
>machine. Shredder always managed to hold matches even, but surprisingly not this
>time.

a good way to find out is reverse opening, and reverse processors....
you might wanna do the test yourself, it should be interesting :)

Pavel



>That 5-0 makes me say WOW!
>Tiger and no other program can do better than winning X - 0.
>
>
>>then ofcourse there is this question of not having enough games....
>>thats why we have something called "SSDF"  ...:))
>>Pavel
>
>
>I am not SSDF, SSDF will test Tiger2 in the future, but not now. And
>beta-testing is not restricted neither wished to only play auto232-games in an
>amount SSDF does, that would be something Ed and Christophe could do on their
>own.
>My and other Tiger-2-results just give an impression, statistical value will
>come later by SSDF.



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