Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:21:50 05/29/02
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On May 29, 2002 at 11:26:06, Franck ZIBI wrote:
>
>Hi !
>
>There are some discussions here about the game Pharaon vs. Tiger in round 5 of
>Massy, and I would like to clarify some points:
>
>=> First, I am very impressed by the performance of Tiger :
>although playing with much slower hardware, it outplayed most of its opponent
>(including Pharaon & Chinito), clearly showing that it was a clear step ahead in
>Massy (apart from Chess Wizard, who suffered from its opening book in its game
>with Tiger).
>
>=> About the Tiger operator: Ernest has done its job professionally and
>conscientiously: using a headphone to play the Tiger moves as fast as possible.
>
>=> In all games played in Massy, I gave Pharaon 24’ for the all game (out of the
>30’ Time Control) : it makes it play slightly faster, very slightly weaker, but
>above all it prevents it from losing because of operator slowness!)
>(it already happened in the past).
Are you sure you mean 24 minutes for the program? That makes only 6 minutes for
the operator.
Don't you mean 14 minutes?
>=> In the Pharaon – Tiger game, Tiger made pressure on Pharaon in most of the
>opening and middle game, then in moves 60/90, the position became more balanced,
>with winning chances for both sides. It was few minutes before Tiger lost on
>time in a winning position.
>
>=> My impression after the game is that the Tiger operator time was not suited
>for such a long game (independently of the skill of the operator), and I agree
>that the game was decided by the clock and not by the board.
>
>=> Incidentally, the same thing occurred in round 3 between Pharaon and BBChess,
>Pharaon was a pawn up in a very drawish rook endgame, and, instead of winning
>the game on time, I preferred, with my opponent agreement, to finish the game
>without the clock, to make sure that there was no hidden winning lines
>(the game ended in a draw after 106 moves)
>The difference between round 3 and round 5 is that the round 5 result decided of
>the future tournament winner (a race between Tiger and Chinito), and Eugenio
>would have killed me if I have offered to play without the clock :-) (meaning
>giving a full point to Tiger, and the Massy tournament victory)
>
>=> Uri : I also support the Fischer Time control, and not only for computer
>games ;-)
>
>Regards.
Thanks for clarifying Frank.
I hope you understand that I am not disputing the result.
It's just that I consider that Tiger has not been defeated during this
tournament.
Christophe
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