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

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 22:07:50 11/26/00

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On November 26, 2000 at 23:30:59, Terry Ripple wrote:

>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

No Terry you cannot.
Wayne



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