Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:46:59 10/03/00
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On October 03, 2000 at 02:58:28, pavel wrote:
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>>Yes, the program is not likely to lose on time. The engine has even a special
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>>>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
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>>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. :)
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>yes it is much stronger than the previous version, but how much? is the
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>I dont have the first version of the tiger either, so cant tell if it produces
>the same moves or better moves :).
Better. 12.92 (beta) seemed a bit like a turbo version of Tiger 12, though to be
fair, there were differences. 12.95 (beta) is another story.
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>one of the operator thinks CTII is not good at "open king side attack", but he
>wasnt clear about what he means by it , I wanted to ask him but before I could
>he loged out.
>the last time I checked he changed his notes :) his account it cchess(c)
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>but the main part is that people who were before running CT 12.0 and now running
>CT II 12.92 has significant increase in their rating in ICS.
"Not good at open side attack"? :-) Must be talking about the previous version
as now there are two versions being tested, one of which is a kamikaze (IMO)
attacker, used to test and develop its attacking skills. Here is a blitz game it
played against GM Mecking last night:
Date: 2/10/2000
White: Mecking
Black: SubtleOne
Opening: D31 QGD: Semi-Slav, Noteboom Variation
White ELO: 2692
Black ELO: 2901
Time control = 5 3
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 e6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. Bg5 f6 6. Bd2 b5 7. e3 Na6 8. a4 Nc7
9. Be2 a6 10. Ne4 Nh6 11. b3 cxb3 12. Qxb3 f5 13. Ng3 Bd6 14. O-O O-O 15. Rfc1
Bb7 16. Bb4 Bxb4 17. Qxb4 Nd5 18. Qb3 f4 19. Nf1 fxe3 20. fxe3 Qf6 21. e4 Nf4
22. Ng3 Rad8 23. Bf1 Rd7 24. e5 Qg6 25. Qb1 Qg4 26. Ra3 Nf5 27. Nxf5 Rxf5 28.
Kh1 Rdf7 29. Qb3 c5 30. dxc5 Bd5 31. Qb4 a5 32. Qd4 b4 33. Re3 Nxg2 34. Qxg4
Nxe3 35. Qxf5 Rxf5 36. Be2 b3 37. Kg1 Bxf3 38. Bd3 Rxe5 39. c6 b2 40. Rc3 Rg5+
41. Kf2 Nd1+ 42. Kxf3 Nxc3 43. c7 Rc5 Mecking resigns
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>>>Its fun to play against it in chess servers,
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>>>so we will see it at the end of this year?
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>>What's your guess? :)
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>still has time, if you (ed) wanna release at the end of this year.
>enough time to improve or work on bug fixes (if found, by the beta team)?
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>2 months should be a reasonable amount of time to get done with the beta-test.
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>so i assume its gonna be out at the mid DEC.
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