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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger 14.7 vs Novag W10-L7-D3 This is great but....... ?!

Author: J. C. Boco

Date: 12:29:27 12/14/01

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On December 13, 2001 at 17:45:39, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On December 13, 2001 at 17:19:48, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On December 13, 2001 at 17:14:57, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>In the last game at 15 min per side, I quite don't understand Chess Tiger 14.7
>>>Opening ? Why is Chess Tiger giving up a pawn with the black, since White is not
>>>losing any tempo in this position, and why is 8.....h6? necessary? The
>>>improvement of the software is great from 14.6 to 14.7 for the palm version, but
>>>the opening still has a few holes.
>>>
>>>
>>>Date 13/12/2001
>>>White: Novag Turquoise USCF 2294
>>>Black: Chess Tiger 14.7 (Handspring 33 MHz)
>>>Opening: A09 Reti Accepted
>>>
>>>
>>>1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Na3 g6 4. e3 Bg7 5. Bxc4 e5 6.d3 e4 7. dxe4 Qxd1+
>>>8.Kxd1 h6 9. Nb5 Na6 10. Kc2 Bd7 11. Rd1 Bc6 12. Nd2 Nb4+ 13. Kb1 Bxb5
>>>14. Bxb5+ c6 15. Bc4 Nf6 16. a3 Na6 17. f3  Here at this point Novag was showing
>>>an evaluation of + 1.10
>>>
>>
>>
>>PS: Sorry that I can't provide any help in correcting any of the opening lines,
>>since I am Not an Expert in Chess Openings. But Somebody has to go back to the
>>drawing board and makes some serious modifications.
>>
>>Jorge
>
>
>
>It must be the 4th time that I tell you that when you see such a hole you should
>just send us the game.
>
>Thanks for pointing out this hole, it will be fixed.
>
>
>
>    Christophe


Christophe,

How much memory would it take to have Tiger use a database for its opening
moves- a database of say 100,000 games?  Perhaps this would equal about 1
million positions?

It seems to me that using a database for the opening book is a foolproof way of
avoiding any "holes".



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