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Subject: Re: Tiger Installation - CT engine book - any separate book for Gambit?

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 20:30:59 11/26/00

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On November 26, 2000 at 18:33:12, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>On November 26, 2000 at 16:52:18, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On November 26, 2000 at 14:53:59, Christopher A. Morgan wrote:
>>
>>>I have one choice, the ct engine book.  Is there a separate
>>>engine book for the Gambit engine??  Thanks.
>>>
>>>Chris
>>
>>The book for both Tiger 13.0 and Gambit 1.0 is Ct.tbk (the engine book).
>>The book is tuned for Tiger 13.0 at this point Gambit has no separate book.
>>
>>Sarah.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On November 26, 2000 at 12:03:44, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 26, 2000 at 10:36:34, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Received Tiger past Wednesday as promised by Steve. Well Packaged to get to
>>>>>Calif.
>>>>>Installed Tiger 13 without deleting Tiger 12. Bad Result. I looked for new
>>>>>Tiger13 icon. none. I clicked on T12 icon and there I found the two Tigers,
>>>>>_but_ same ole T12 GUI.
>>>>>I read posts by Sarah responding to a thread describing some GUI features that I
>>>>>did not have.
>>>>>Further I played some fast blitz games on yahoo 5 min and was getting results
>>>>>against fritzy6 that was not good, And I was dissapointed in the same ole GUI of
>>>>>T12.
>>>>>
>>>>>I decided to try a long shot. I deleted F6 and T13 and reinstalled T13, Walla,
>>>>>here come the Tiger Roaring just like Sarah said. Brand new GUI, I love it,
>>>>>better than Fritzy except for _no_ space bar to force move, which is a
>>>>>outstanding feature in fritzy for fast program switching.
>>>>>
>>>>>Back to Yahoo, I am getting Fangtastic results with 13 on yahoo at a game time
>>>>>control of game in 2 min, inc 4.
>>>>>
>>>>>I do not know why except prob. wrong book originally, or some other installation
>>>>>conflict or just plain ole statistics but I do not think that is the case Cause
>>>>>the re-installed T13 is awesome, period.
>>>>>
>>>>>I Thank Christophe for his efforts.
>>>>>I have never in the years of participating at CCC talked about another program
>>>>>in these terms not even Fritzy. But T13 is something else.
>>>>>
>>>>>bye 4 now
>>>>>
>>>>>Wayne
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thanks Wayne.
>>>>
>>>>There are 2 things I can tell you:
>>>>
>>>>1) you can force the program to play by pressing Ctrl-O (Ctrl and the letter O).
>>>>This shortcut is displayed when you move the mouse on the "move now" icon and
>>>>leave it there for one second. There are shortcuts available for many other
>>>>icons.
>>>>
>>>>2) Don't forget to go to Extra->Options->Books and click on "Use engine books".
>>>>I know it has been said already, but it's just in case you or somebody else
>>>>missed it...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Christophe
>
>Follow up: Thank you Christophe for your explanation via e-mail. Your are right
>of course. I have played roughly a dozen games now with the real Tiger13 on
>Yahoo against all comers and the Cat has lost only one game. Other players are
>asking me what program and where to buy it and I am proud to tell them. Wow what
>a difference between T12 & T13. I have not tried GT1 yet, but will.
>
>A word of advise to others who like me had Tiger12 installed and running. You
>need to de-install Tiger12 prior to installing Tiger13.
>There are conflicts and engine T12 is running even tho apparently is says
>Tiger13.
>
>Word to the wise etc.
>
>Thank you
>Wayne
-----------------

Hi Wayne,
Can you auto play Tiger on Yahoo like you can on FICS and Chessnet?

Regards,Terry



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