Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:28:38 10/02/00
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On October 02, 2000 at 12:47:44, Uri Blass wrote:
>On October 02, 2000 at 12:29:04, ERIQ wrote:
>
>>I just have to say wow I've played lots of programs but tiger seems very
>>good. It didn't make any stupid computer moves that I could see and even
>>seemed to make some waiting moves in a position that needed them. It didn't
>>feel like a program at all, lots of knowlege of positional play. hardware
>>used was 350 K6-2 128mb sdram.
>>
>>my game ended in a draw after 180+ moves and I was Very happy w/ it !!, as I had
>>no chance at anytime to win as WHITE in a caro kahn. In the end I
>>had a lone king, tiger had a Rook pawn and the wrong color bishop to win the
>>game.
>
>It seems that tiger12 Dos did a typical computer error otherwise it could avoid
>KBP vs K draw.
>
>I guess that it did not understand that it is a draw because it had no
>tablebases and no knowledge about it(I guess that it is not going to work
>against the new tiger because I remember that the author found a way to add this
>kind of knowledge without being slower).
>
>Uri
Tiger 12.0 DOS knows about the draw KBP/K endgame.
Christophe
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