Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 05:31:11 11/10/01
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On November 10, 2001 at 02:42:25, Drazen Marovic wrote:
>On November 10, 2001 at 02:34:31, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 10, 2001 at 00:09:40, Drazen Marovic wrote:
>>
>>>On November 09, 2001 at 19:56:34, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>in winboard forum one has posted some games of Palm Tiger against not so strong
>>>>winboard engines.
>>>>Next is interesting:
>>>>
>>>
>>>I had an 11 year old student about what you would call 1600-1800 beat tiger 3
>>>straight games at game in 15 minutes on a palm Vx. It is not very strong at all
>>>on quick time controls. I can not say how strong on longer games, its opening
>>>book unfortunately is also quite limited(this is just the nature of the palm i
>>>guess). I would say that Tiger is about 1600 at best on the palmVx. Great
>>>program for casual players, but too weak for tournament players on the palm, but
>>>that's fine
>>
>>
>>
>>That's completely wrong.
>
>Not true It was in demo mode only after move 24. Tiger was down between -4 and
>-9 in the 3 games that my student played it, before it went into dmo mode. Now
>it is true that the palm was not overclocked and had a tigermark of 0.49 it is
>up to 1.12 now that it has afterburner on - we will see if the results improve.
>>
>>You are using the program in demo mode, where it blunders on purpose to draw
>>conclusions about its strength after 3 games. Great!
>>
>>Chess Tiger for Palm played here in Guadeloupe in a human tournament and got a
>>rating well above 2000.
>
>This was game in 15 minutes was this the time control of the tournament you
>speak of?
Game in 20 minutes. I had set it to game in 15 minutes because of the time
needed to operate the program.
>>I have several games played against a 2100 elo human player, and Tiger won the
>>match.
>
>Overclocked or at 0.49 tigermarks?
It was an overclocked one.
Christophe
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