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Subject: Tiger or Pussycat? A tournament to find out the truth

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 06:51:40 05/28/01


Hi all,
I have started a tourney to find out the strongest Tiger. Chess Tiger 14,
GambitTiger 2, GambitTiger 2 aggressive and GambitTiger 2 aggressive plus
SelSafety=8 will play against WChess 2000, Zarkov 5, Shredder 4, Shredder 5,
MChessPro 8, Hiarcs 7.32, Nimzo 8, Junior 6a (maybe. Junior 7), Fritz 6 (Version
May 2001), Rebel Century 3 and Chessmaster 8000. The Chessmaster matches will
only be played if I get Chessmaster to play autoplayer series. If I don't there
won't be an alternative opponent. Same with Rebel Century 3, if I see trouble
referring to the autoplayer, the match will be canceled. But let's hope for the
best. BTW any advice concerning Chessmaster 8000 and autoplayer-series is
welcome.
The matches have the following setup: 40 moves in 120 minutes plus 60 minutes
for the rest of the game. The games will be played on two computers. The Tigers
get an Athlon-600 with 192MB RAM which means 96MB hash. The opponents get an
equal computer but with 500MHz (same mainboard, same RAM). Chessmaster will run
with 64MB hash which is said to be sufficient, Rebel Century will get 100MB
hash, MChessPro cannot handle more than 61MB hash, all the other programs will
have 120-128MB hash. Each program plays with the own book and default settings.
The matches go over 10 rounds=games. So each Tiger will play a maximum of 100
games and all in all 400 TOURNAMENT games will be played (!). (What am I doing,
am I crazy? That takes three months. :-))
Six matches have been finished so far, results and games (zipped PGN) are
available on www.geocities.com/Harald1312/HaraldFaber.html (text in German
only). Site will be updated after each completed match and when completely
finished I will provide all games in one database.

Enjoy! (I do!) :-)

Harald Faber

PS for Jeroen Noomen: You should contact me, there's at least one line for black
which Tiger frequently loses although coming out of book with a piece up but a
dubious position.



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