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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger 15 Question

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 15:03:25 10/28/02

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On October 28, 2002 at 12:27:41, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On October 28, 2002 at 08:45:18, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>Several people have stated that Chess Tiger 15 is now the strongest engine on a
>>single CPU.  Several (other?) people have stated that Chess Tiger 15 is notably
>>passive in its style of play.  That begs this question:  How strong and how
>>active is the Gambit setting?
>>
>>Does using the Gambit (Aggressive) setting of Chess Tiger 15 weaken it to a
>>significant extent?  Does it fully resolve peoples' concerns about passive play?
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>The Gambit and Gambit aggressive settings are not significantly weaker. I think
>they are just 10 to 20 elo elo under the normal style.
>
>Which means that it will be practically difficult to measure that difference.
>
>On the other hand the style is much more active and spectacular. I hope that
>some day these styles will actually be stronger than the normal style. I need to
>add knowledge in the program.



So a message to all those who are complaining that Tiger 15 is too passive:

Just use the Gambit or Gambit Aggressive personality and it will be much more
active and 99.5% as strong!




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>    Christophe



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