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Subject: Re: Settings of Chess Tiger .ini file

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 08:57:30 12/16/00

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On December 16, 2000 at 04:48:26, Fabio Barrettone wrote:

>Above all let me say hello to all the members. I am a new entry and this if my
>first post after some days of reading ;-)
>
>I have a question for Christophe (but surely not him alone, since there are many
>testers here).
>
>I read some time ago in the site of Ed that Tiger 12.9 benefit a change in the
>configuration file. Namely NWSEW=1. It is true also for Tiger II?



No. The default settings are the best known at this time.





> And what is
>the meaning of that (if you could explain, naturally). I wonder if it is the
>same for Gambit Tiger, in the case the above question is true.
>
>Secondly: I've tried to experiment a bit with Selsafety, trying to increase and
>decrease it for see what would happen. I think setting it very low makes the
>engine similar to a "Brute Force" one, am I correct?



No. Setting it to 0 increase the selectivity of the program so much that it will
miss simple tactics.

Setting it to 99 make the program a little bit less selective, but no brute
force either.

The default value is the best setting as far as we know.



    Christophe




>I have also created an interesting personality for Century 3.0, and I hope to
>share it soon with others. The testing with the default personality are
>interesting, till now, also if it needs some modifications here and there; you
>know, what makes things interesting are the particulars ;-)
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Sincerely,
>Fabio.



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