Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:09:38 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.
Definitely not.
In the endgame, Chess Tiger and Gambit Tiger have exactly the same knowledge and
the same speed, so they are IDENTICAL.
Generally speaking, Gambit Tiger has ALL the knowledge of Chess Tiger PLUS
knowledge about king attacks.
Which does not mean that Gambit Tiger is stronger (in term of match results)
than Chess Tiger. Having more knowledge is not enough, the knowledge must also
be used in a balanced way.
It is possible that the attacking style of Gambit Tiger backfires sometimes.
This is why we do not know at this time which engine is objectively stronger.
Christophe
> So what I'm speaking of would be worth, in that case, $2000!
>S.Taylor
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