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Subject: Re: Junior6a - Gambit-Tiger, PGN's

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 19:00:13 11/13/00

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On November 13, 2000 at 21:26:17, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On November 13, 2000 at 21:09:49, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>I think I understand now.
>>Well! that almost makes me want to cry! (together with an emotional Gambit
>>Tiger).
>
>An emotional and sympathetic chess program :o). That would be a new paradigm
>LOL.
>
>>You might say, "but it's not enough games to indicate very much"!
>
>Yep, that would be a strong argument as always.
>
>>  But I can tell you, that I anyway am always upset to see a program which I
>>want to get for analysis, and main use, lose even one game, esp. to a previous
>>generation program, since that indicates some inadequacy somewhere, compared to
>>something else which is available. I would prefer if they were many draws, even
>>if only the occasional win. That would look more reliably better. But now, it
>>looks like in many ways, the old Junior6a is stronger than GT.
>
>Though I'm not fortunate enough to have GT in my possession I'm sure that it's a
>very strong and enjoyable program to use. Very few new programs sweeps the
>opposition aside without losses, because the differences in playing strength are
>rather small after all. So your choice boils down to preferences in features,
>GUI and style IMHO.
>
>Mogens.

I mean, only a  rare loss.
But maybe Chess Tiger will do much better against Junior, and for such a
thrillng program as GT to come equal  with Junior 6a and no worse against all
others, maybe you need not be too upset if a very tough program can get through
some small cracks. Let's see the humans do it, and the programs, against CHESS
Tiger.
S.Taylor



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