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Subject: WARNING: Gambit Tiger Engine Properties in CB Tiger GUI

Author: F. Jermann

Date: 00:30:12 06/01/01


Although I like the GT engine of Christophe very much (so I have bought both,
the Rebel and then the Chessbase version to spend money for further
developements ;-)), I have to mention that there are some severe bugs in the CB
Tiger GUI. Since I found not a single post on this here, I do not know whether
people here have recognized it!

If you select the playing style of GT2 in the engine properties dialog some
changes are written to a file named 'engines.ini' but not to the file 'ct.ini'.
Unfortunately GT only reads the playing style given in the 'ct.ini' file. All
other porperties like 'player is human' seem to work. From my point of view the
guys at chessbase (or Christophe?) have forgotten to test the playing style
option because it isn't available in CT 14.

I have verified this very soon, when I played some Nunn Matches and GT 2 as well
as GT 2 aggressive played exactly the same matches! To change the playing style,
one has to change the value MoreGambit in the 'ct.ini' file! The 'Gambit Tiger'
section in the 'engines.ini' seems to be useless!

Also a database function (like deleting a game with the <del> key doesn't work
anymore (in both Tiger GUI and new CB8 update!)...

Maybe I should apply for a job as beta tester... ;-)

Nice trouble shooting,

Frank



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