Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:30:06 10/02/00
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On October 02, 2000 at 14:17:22, Uri Blass wrote:
>On October 02, 2000 at 13:28:38, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>I remember from a previous post that tiger did not know something similiar(KBPP
>vs K that is a draw) and I remember that you found a simple way to teach tiger
>similiar things when the number of pawns is not important without being slower.
Yes, you are right. There was a little problem with KBPP/K when both pawns are
on the A or H file.
It is fixed in Rebel-Tiger II.
Christophe
>I need to see the game to have an opinion about what happened but it seemed that
>there was something that tiger did not know well if a human with rating of 2200
>could get a draw against it because I expect 2200 players to lose against
>computers in most of the games(of course it is also possible that the human
>played a very good game)
>
>Uri
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