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Subject: Re: Is this a Rebel/Tiger/Gandalf Boycott?

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 00:02:17 06/21/02

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On June 20, 2002 at 21:40:52, Peter McKenzie wrote:

>On June 20, 2002 at 17:40:26, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>On June 20, 2002 at 15:31:27, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>
>>>Any comment from Christophe or Ed?
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>we have 200 or more chess programs.
>>I think its not very important that 3 of this programs are not playing.
>
>None of the programs you mention are as strong as Tiger which has been at or
>near the very top of the SSDF list for quite some time now.  Plus Tiger/Rebel
>have one of the best opening book makers in the business.

Although Tiger is a strong program, I wasn't really impressed at the CSVN
tournement. I guess it needs some more finetuning. Maybe Christophe felt the
same.

They have to pay a lot of money so at least you need to have a good feeling
about your engine. Of course, Leiden could just have been bad luck.

Tony




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