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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger 15 strength impressions

Author: Yen Art Tham

Date: 08:29:37 10/20/02

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On October 19, 2002 at 17:32:48, John Rice wrote:

>I haven't run any comp-comp tournaments with Chess Tiger 15, but I have had time
>to play many online games at Yahoo's advance chess lounge against my usual
>fellow program players. So far, I have to agree with John Smith and a few of the
>other posters who are not having the success they expected with Chess Tiger 15.
>In comparision to my strongest program, Deep Fritz 7, Tiger is drawing (and
>losing) a lot of games that I usually tend to win. Unfortunantely, I have
>reached the point were I no longer even use CT15 when playing at Yahoo.
>
>My gut feeling is something is just not set-up quite right with the engine
>and/or gui. I'm not giving up on CT15 and plan to tweak some things to see what
>I can achieve. I would also like to ask any of you that have worked with CT15 a
>lot in tournaments and beta testing to help me as well. I'm confident that with
>a few changes here and there, Chess Tiger 15 (like it's predecessor CT14 once
>did) will resume it's role as one of, if not the strongest programs used at the
>Yahoo advanced chess lounge. Here is my current settings: Normal engine, 192MB
>hash, 16M TB cache, all 3/4/5 endgame tablebases. Hardware: XP 2400+, 512MB of
>ddr 3200 ram, raid 0 harddrive array, and the OS is Windows Xp.
>
>Thanks,
>JW


The *real* solution is for Christophe to finally fix the fischer clock problem.

yat



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