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Subject: Re: Strongest new program releases

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 11:53:51 11/07/00

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On November 07, 2000 at 12:25:35, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On November 06, 2000 at 22:07:52, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 06, 2000 at 12:22:28, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>>
>>>This only my personal opinion (other may and will disagree): I consider Shredder
>>>5 to be the strongest!
>>>José.
>>
>>
>>
>>Based on what???
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>Based mainly on tournament results.




So you base your judgement that Shredder is the best program on 9 games played
back in August???





> I do not really pay attention to private
>testing.



You don't need to, of course, if you believe that 9 games are enough to tell
which program is better.





> I follow tournaments in which the authors are directly involved, like
>the ICCA tournaments, the IPCCC, the French championship (congratulations!), the
>Dutch open (congratulations again!), the Spanish championship (I have not heard
>from it in a long time, but I think you won the last one... congratulations!),
>and the CCT.



So why don't you say that Gambit Tiger is the best program at this time?

BTW I wouldn't dare to say this myself based only on the few games of the French
and Dutch championship.





>I also follow human-comp games, again when the authors are directly involved.
>And now that we are on that, what has happened with the match against the
>Lithuaninan club?
>I think Tiger was going to play on two boards for the Rebel team. Whenever that
>happens, I expect to see interesting games and I wish you and Ed a good result.
>I know you test Tiger against strong local players in Guadalupe (sp?), are those
>tournament games? I believe that should help you to score well against humans
>too (both Tiger versions have already shown to be very strong against other
>computers).
>(hey, I can not properly type my name in this computer!).



I have not played against my chess players friends here since a long time.

The strongest guadeloupean player is now in metropolitan France, and the other
players are not practising anymore on a regular basis...



    Christophe



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