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Subject: Re: Chesstiger II beta

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 23:25:05 10/02/00

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On October 03, 2000 at 01:17:21, pavel wrote:

>though I am not a beta tester of CT II,
>I have been playing against it alot in chess servers.
>and by now I have gathered a databse of 50+ games already.
>
>few things to note about the interface of the program (lokasoft?)



The interface has been significantly improved.




>I think we will see a good positive change, specially if you wanna run it in
>chess.net ICS, i think the accuclck problem has been solved.
>
>also I think CT II will be one of those rare program who will NEVER lose in time
>(e,g crafty).
>last night I played a game with the CT II (beta) (ics account cchess(c) )
>against x-treme 5.32 (beta) (ics account Standard (c)) ,
>and I was surprised to see it made the  last 20 moves in the last 4 seconds in
>its clock that it had. amazing!! it turned out to be a draw :)
>I also think the time alocation is much better then the previous version,
>doesnt use too much or too less time , depending on the game.



Yes, the program is not likely to lose on time. The engine has even a special
knowledge about what to do when it is in zeitnot.




>I am still not sure about its 'significance' improve in strength,
>but again i guess there will be more update of the beta versions, one differant
>from the others.



The engine has been significantly improved. Ask the people using Tiger 12.0 on
the servers. Ask them what results they get against Tiger 12.92. :)



>Its fun to play against it in chess servers,
>
>so we will see it at the end of this year?



What's your guess? :)



    Christophe



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