Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:18:11 10/04/00
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On October 04, 2000 at 14:23:34, Uri Blass wrote:
>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?
Amongst other things.
>2)Is there a difference in nodes per second between the 2 versions?
Not much. Tiger is still between slow and fast.
Christophe
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