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Subject: Re: Has development of Chess Tiger stopped?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:01:38 07/25/04

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On July 25, 2004 at 10:21:42, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On July 24, 2004 at 22:20:08, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On July 24, 2004 at 15:44:25, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>On the contrary, I would bet that Christophe Thèron is working hard in an
>>>altogether new engine. My impression is that he arrived to the conclusion that
>>>Tiger had already exhausted any chance to be improved along the original lines
>>>of programming that were the trademark of it, so he is now after a new
>>>paradigm.
>>>Asmuch he is a very talented performer, I guees he will get it, but not after
>>>long and hard work
>>>Just my cent.
>>>fernando
>>
>>I don't think Christophe had to start over. Even after two years since the last
>>release Tiger 15.0 still does very well against all the _newest_ versions of
>>it's rivals.
>>
>>Unlike most professional programmers, Christophe just doesn't release a new
>>version "just because it's after the WCCC" or "Just because it is Christmas
>>season". He prefers to have a significant increase in strength over the last
>>version, and is patient enough to wait until that time.
>>
>>Personally I salute him for the actions he takes, instead of just bilking money
>>from users every 6 months for an engine that shows no _real_ improvement. ie.
>>Ruffian, Fritz 7 strength vs Fritz 8 strength.
>>
>>Then again I could just talking out of my ass, and Christophe is sitting back
>>enjoying like and drinking like a TWA pilot before a flight :)
>>
>>Peter
>
>
>
>There is truth and wisdom in what you say above.
>
>
>
>    Christophe

Note only that the original poster did not get his impression only because of
not releasing a better engine.

see the following quote:

"is not even optimised to run on the
latest ARM processors. It also still uses the old low resoltion graphics which
looks pretty poor on the latest high res palms."

Uri



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