Author: Helmut Conrady
Date: 19:58:47 11/21/00
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On November 21, 2000 at 20:12:24, r.c. richards wrote: >If you guys hadn't hyped it up, I probably never would have bought the program. >Thanks for posting about it. > >I'd have never taken the time to read the reviews on Ed's site to even find out >about the program. Let's face it: Ed's site is crap and not easy to get around >in. I did go there and read the reviews after he posted the url and found most >of the reviews to be very poorly written and they didn't give Gambit Tiger it's >due. (I haven't been able to set up Rebel yet because I don't have a serial, so >I don't know how that's going to be yet--ICD says they're mailing out the >booklets today.) > >Regarding Chess Partner--I wonder if I'm the only person who hates the sounds >that came with it. I hope ChessBase doesn't mind, but I've taken a lot of the >sounds from Fritz and copied them to the Chess Partner directory so now I'm >hearing Fritz sounds. I also would like it if I could do an engine-engine match >in Chess Partner. Maybe next go around. I'm not much into engine-engine >matches, so it won't be any big deal for me to do it manually. I've got two >computers, but I'm not gonig to all the trouble of rigging them to play each >other. > >And I may be the only one here, but I don't care what program is rated 100 >points above the other. I'll read your posts about it, some of them anyway, but >I'm more interested in a program that will play an interesting game against me, >and Gambit Tiger definitely fills the bill better than anything else out there. >On some of it's moves, here I am wondering if it's got good sense. > >And then last night it did it's first sacrifice in a 4 move mate combination >that was as pretty as any combo like that I've seen between a master and a rank >amateur like myself. > >And I ain't interested in a copy of ChessMaster 8000 or Shredder anymore. Who >wants to play against some program that plays boring games when you can play >against Gambit Tiger? On the Shredder 5 CD there are some Shredder styles created by the author. "Kamikaze Shredder", "Gambit Shredder" and 4 others which play an interesting style (if Shredder 5 doesn t play interesting enough for you :). Helmut
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