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Subject: Re: Someone Better Stop Tiger or This GM Debate is Going to be over Quick!

Author: Martin Schubert

Date: 02:06:36 06/26/01

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On June 26, 2001 at 04:53:05, Mark Young wrote:

>ChessTiger has now produced 2 wins in a row and a draw against strong titled IM
>players. It must be noted ChessTiger is doing this on hardware that is not
>considered ultra fast PIII 866 256 MB Ram. Most people own hardware this good or
>better. This is not a chess program running on thousands of dollars with of
>equipment with 8 CPUs.
>
>If ChessTiger continues playing as well as it is, the 2100 elo crowd or the No
>way computers are GM crowd will have to come up with someway to explain this
>performance. As I doubt it will change anyone’s mind even if ChessTiger wins
>this tournament.

The performance is easy to explain. Like in the tournaments last year with the
participation of Fritz and Junior a lot of players don't know how to play
against computers. There are some games which could be played by players with
rating <2000 as well.

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