Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 11:40:27 03/30/02
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On March 30, 2002 at 13:42:37, Roy Eassa wrote: >On March 30, 2002 at 13:35:51, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On March 30, 2002 at 13:29:33, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >> >>>Statistically and Technically correct position of Tiger is readable in SSDF list >>>(well known independent organization), not in occasionally conducted games (read >>>amateurs match) where the settings can be crippled or something else can be >>>perfectly out of control (with all my best for Kurt). >>> >>>w.b.r. >>>Otello >> >> >> >>No problem, Otello. >> >>Roy is just answering to my repeated jokes about Chess Tiger's position in >>Kurt's tournament. >> >>A little bit of self-derision does no harm! :) >> >> >> >> Christophe > > >I think I started this whole thing, laughing at the anomalous last-place >position at Chess Tiger in Kurt's previous tournament. > >Regardless of its result in any single tournament, I of course know Chess Tiger >(and Gambit Tiger) to be an incredibly strong program. Until version 15 comes >out, Chess Tiger might (MIGHT) have been surpassed by Fritz 7b as the top >program, but IMHO it's still clearly stronger overall than Hiarcs 7.32 and >CM8777 and probably stronger than Shredder 6 (and maybe about even with Junior >7?). > >Just having a bit of fun with the odd statistical results you can get with small >sample sizes. :-) Yes this is indeed one of Christophes stronger points, he can handle a "bad" result in a short tournamnet because he has studied stastitics (at least in practice) so he fully knows that Tiger is on par or better than the other programs except maybee for the new Fritz-version and the ever surprising King-engine from mr de Koning. Bertil
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