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Subject: Re: CT 14.0 can't play against Smirin, because of previous performance

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 19:28:22 04/26/02

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On April 26, 2002 at 22:22:09, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On April 26, 2002 at 20:17:27, Telmo Escobar wrote:
>
>> IMHO, Chess Tiger is distinctly better than Gambit Tiger. I know that
>>Christophe Theron is particularly fond of GT- yet I don't forget that Christophe
>>is not a strong chess player.
>>
>> According to the sources, the reason why Smirin has played GT -and not CT- is
>>because the Tiger team so decided. I don't doubt that is true. But also I guess
>>that Smirin himself, understanding so much about chess, might be secretely happy
>>with that decision.
>
>I know the reason in detail, I was just trying to steer something, but after all
>there might be a little true about trying to keep the status of Chess Tiger as
>being closed to 2800. To me it was simply a miracle that could only be
>accomplished by playing players who never heard of Chess Tiger before, but if
>you match the same players against Chess Tiger 14.0 right now, everybody will
>see a complete turnaround or at least players rated between 2400 to 2500 from
>the same group drawing and even beating CT 14.0.

PS: I guarantee you that the majority of those players bought Chess Tiger right
after the match and after having it for at least three weeks, even players
between 2375-2475 learned a few weaknesses about the program.

>Pichard.
>
>
>> Argentine players who played CT in that tournament became amazed not only for
>>the  number of points the engine managed to get, but for the wonderful (and
>>human-like) quality of its play.



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