Author: Mike Adams
Date: 03:30:49 10/18/00
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On October 18, 2000 at 06:11:42, stuart taylor wrote: >On October 18, 2000 at 03:53:38, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>On October 18, 2000 at 03:17:39, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>> If the strengths of Chess Tiger can be combined with those of Chess Gambit, >>>now, or even within 10 weeks from now, I, although quite poor, would gladly pay >>>$200 for a copy, without any other package. >>> But that would have to mean that the resulting program would beat the two >>>upcoming Tigers in a match. >>> Wouldn't others do the same? >>>S.Taylor >> >>Dear Stuart, >> >>As a Beta tester for the Rebel 11 programs, I can say that Gambit Tiger by >>itself is worth $200.00 but I am glad that Ed and his associates have kept the >>price down. I recommended that they charge a little bit more than the low price >>for all four programs. I think that Ed knows more about marketing chess >>programs than I do. >> >>This is an awesome chess program package. There is nothing like it on the >>market. Unfortunately, Ed Schroder is spoiling us rotten. Christophe tells me >>that he has only been able to put a small fraction of the total endgame >>knowledge possible into his Tiger programs so far. There is room for >>improvement and it will come in the next upgrades. >> >>As our processors get faster and eat less power we will soon be able to play >>Gambit Tiger on a device the size of a wallet at 1 Gigahertz with 128 Megs of >>RAM. I will take my GT Mobile Computer with me everywhere. Sooner than you >>think , my friend. >> >> >>Tim Frohlick > >I can believe that, in many ways, GT alone might be worth $200, but it seems to >be being suggested that there still are weaknesses besides lack of fullest >possible end-game knowledge, and those weaknesses probably do not exist in CT. > So what I'm speaking of would be worth, in that case, $2000! >S.Taylor I hear they are similar programs with certain things most notably king saftey done differently in the different versions. This will create a difference in playing style but i imagine that much of what each program does is also shared. I would prefer to have two different opponents each with its own strengths and weaknesses than one hybrid program that supposedly combines the best of both. You never really can combine the best since some of their elements are probably by nature exclusionary. I'm not looking for one super chess program but instead prefer multiple programs that challenge me in different ways.
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