Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:07:39 08/24/01
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On August 24, 2001 at 19:14:34, Harald Faber wrote:
>On August 24, 2001 at 12:33:26, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On August 24, 2001 at 11:41:47, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>With these losses it is justified that Tiger didn't become single world
>>>champion. What is your explanation for this result? Did you play GT in
>>>aggressive mode? What made Tiger lose especially the last game vs. an amateur?
>>
>>
>>
>>I can answer your question if you answer mine:
>>
>>When you flip a coin, why is it head sometimes, and some other time it is tail?
>>
>> Christophe
>
>I hoped you wouldn't answer that way.
>1st: IMO Tiger is the strongest program available, even if slightly ahead of the
>others.
>2nd: I am not disappointed about the Tiger result as you may suppose.
>3rd: I am only curious how the rock solid and tactical safe Tiger could lose a)
>vs. SOS (I'd have bet a lot that at least a draw is the worst result the Tiger
>plays vs. an amateur) and b) HOW this could happen. Tiger did not really play as
>usual.
>4th: IMO the loss vs. DeepJunior was a desaster and I am astonished about
>Tiger's play in that game.
>
>Why am I curious and astonished? Because I have seen *many* SUPERIOUR games
>Tiger played. Of course he loses from time to time, but not vs. anyone and
>especially Jeroen's opening preparation usually gives Tiger some advantage. That
>makes me wonder.
>
>If you say "Statistics" now, well, accepted, but not really satisfied nor
>convinced. Although it would suit to the explanation why Gromit placed so
>high...
Statistics, period.
Version 14.6 is not a risky attempt to create some kind of monster. It is built
upon Chess Tiger 14.0 and Gambit Tiger 2.0, and has an even safer selectivity
system.
If you prefer it is Gambit Tiger 2.0 with a slightly better search.
Let it play on the SSDF and it would achieve a better performance than Gambit
Tiger 2.0.
>Keep on your excellent work, I didn't mean to attack you, your program nor
>anyone else from the Tiger team. If you understood it that way, I feel sorry for
>this misunderstanding.
I did not feel that was an attack, but simply the wrong question to ask.
Especially from someone who has played a lot of chess matches and who should
know that anything can happen in a game...
If you look only at the 7 first rounds of the WMCCC, you conclude that this
Tiger is the best program around. If you only look at the 2 last rounds, you
conclude it's a piece of shit.
Bottom line: please do not conclude anything.
Christophe
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