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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:59:28 10/04/00

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On October 04, 2000 at 16:53:18, Albert Silver wrote:

>On October 04, 2000 at 16:25:47, Robert Hyatt 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
>>
>>
>>OK... that was my misunderstanding then.  I have simply been seeing games
>>using the latest beta.  If "gambit tiger" is a different program, I don't
>>know whether I have seen that or not.
>
>I played Tiger 12.95 (and 12.92) against Crafty on ICC with the account
>SubtleOne (I tried not to overdo it, though I was curious, however I got placed
>on the NoPlay list all the same. Any chance you could take SubtleOne off? I'd
>like to try a couple of standards with Gambit 0.95 (it IS a different engine).
>
>                                         Albert


No problem.  why did you get noplayed?  I didn't notice.  But I assume you
are not running crafty?  which probably means > 4 games?



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