Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 00:49:30 01/11/01
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On January 11, 2001 at 03:13:40, Jouni Uski wrote: >On January 11, 2001 at 02:31:30, John Smith wrote: > >>They,( your opponents) are using faster hardware. Trust me, Gambit Tiger and >>Tiger 13 are far superior to anything out there right now. I own all the >>commercial programs with the exception of Shredder and Genius 6.5 and the two >>tiggers are in a class by themselves. > >Heh,heh... What's your proof?! I don't know that he's even discussing strength. I think he may be talking about enterprising style of play and wonderful chess skills. Rebel Tiger does not even use endgame tablebase files. I imagine that there are a lot of tricks that could be tossed in (SMP, EGTB, etc) to give RT even sharper teeth. In any case, I think I would rather watch Rebel Tiger play than just about any engine. The games are fun and surprising and yet remain very strong. So many computer chess games are 104 move "grind-em-out draws." Bleah! Half of the SSDF games would put me to sleep. In fact, the free winboard engines are sometimes more fun to watch just because they do crazy stuff. My favorite chess program will always be crafty, but my favorite "commercial" program is Chess Tiger (in all its flavors). I also like Rebel and Hiarcs, and would like Chessmaster if it could process EPD records in batch. 'The King' engine from CM5500 really humiliated me a few years ago. I don't know much about the ChessBase engines, and I'm not really all that interested since they won't process EPD records. I also like Shredder and plan to purchase a copy soon to use with Chess Assistant.
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