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

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 01:05:50 06/01/01

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On June 01, 2001 at 03:30:12, F. Jermann wrote:

>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



I have forwarded this to the persons in charge of the GUI.

Thanks.



    Christophe



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