Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:19:09 10/20/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 19:26:31, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>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
>
>JW a couple of things crossed my mind on your post. I have a hunch you play
>blitz, which is the usualy deal there. That being the case I dont think None of
>the Chess Tigers have been world beaters at blitz, which I do not think
>Christophe gets too upset about.
>
>Try some long time control such as SSDF employs, you may see a different result,
>maybe not I dont know.
>
>Secondly I know Christophe has always said "as much hash as possible", but my
>experience with Fritz et all Engines that is not best in blitz. example in game
>5/0 with Fritz my experience with all Fritz's is hash of 32 or even perhaps 15
>megs. It is my opinion that Tiger 14 plays 5/0 best with hash around these
>values although Christophe may say otherwise and he ought to know, but I have
>spend many of games there with TG14 and that is my impression.
>Thanks
>Wayne
I repeat that using AS HASH TABLE MUCH AS POSSIBLE is the best setting since
Tiger 13.
Limiting the amount of hash table under the maximum available on your computer
will simply be counter-productive.
Christophe
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