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

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 21:55:17 05/28/01

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On May 28, 2001 at 14:39:51, Chessfun wrote:

>On May 28, 2001 at 09:51:40, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
>Hi Harold,
>          Great tournament good luck with it.


Thanks, Sarah!


>Regarding the CM8K.
>You will find when you run it in tournament mode against
>the other program that if you are absent it will play say
>games 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. Then simply make a new tournament this
>time switch the order you selected the two players then you'll
>get games 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10.
>
>The only other way around this is to play a game in the game
>room then manually switch sides.


I once tried it not very successful, will try it again by hard.


>
>To set up
>Download the "CB_auto232c or b.zip" file Frank has it at;
>http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/download/download_top.htm
>Then unzip it to the Chessmaster 8000 directory.
>Then install by going to the game room
>Click on Game, Import Xboard Engine.
>Name as say Winboard232b
>In xboard filename name the location here is mine;
>D:\Chessmaster 8000\winboard232b.exe
>Then on Command line add
>-noextend
>
>Best of luck !!
>
>Sarah.
>
>
>
>Then it's a simple matter of installing it like a winboard engine.  This just
>requires you to go to the "Game" menu then "Import xboard Engine" and fill in
>the blanks.



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