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Subject: Re: Once again Dr. Hyatt is right on--He is a dispassionate observer.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:23:34 10/04/00

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On October 04, 2000 at 13:34:01, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On October 04, 2000 at 13:04:24, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On October 04, 2000 at 10:14:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On October 04, 2000 at 00:35:34, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 03, 2000 at 20:46:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Err.. exactly _what_ program won't kick a GM at blitz?  I have seen GNU do it.
>>>>>I have seen everybody else do it too...
>>>>>
>>>>>This is hardly a distinguishing event.
>>>>
>>>>Dr. Hyatt,
>>>>
>>>>You are correct.  One game does not mean much.  Gambit Tiger made it look so
>>>>easy though and Mecking made some decent moves.  We will see how good this
>>>>program is within the next six months.
>>>>
>>>>The audience that will be buying these type of programs will be most amused by
>>>>the style of play of Gambit Tiger.  I am certain that you would enjoy it too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Tim Frohlick
>>>
>>>My impression after watching hundreds of games between the new beta versions
>>>and Crafty is that it is very solid, has filled a couple of horrible endgame
>>>holes in the previous version, but I have not noticed any tendency to wildly
>>>attack at all.  At least against Crafty on ICC and chess.net.
>>
>>My understanding is that Gambit tiger and the default version are different.
>>
>>I understood that gambit tiger is weaker than the default version of tiger
>>because the programmer had not enough time to work on tuning the evaluation and
>>it is going to be an option for the users to give them impression about the next
>>version of tiger.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>
>Gambit Tiger has been published in Rebel-Tiger II beta 2 Sunday evening. That's
>why Bob has not seen it playing yet.
>
>I thought it was weaker than the standard engine, but I'm not sure anymore. The
>beta testers are reporting much better results than I expected...
>
>I'm very surprised.
>
>
>
>    Christophe

Questions:
1)Is the main difference between gambit tiger and the default version in
knowledge about king safety?

2)Is there a difference in nodes per second between the 2 versions?

Uri



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