Author: James T. Walker
Date: 11:20:09 11/17/04
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On November 17, 2004 at 05:34:02, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 16, 2004 at 21:08:19, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On November 16, 2004 at 20:37:09, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >> >>>Being a proud owner of Chess Tiger 14, it pains me to observe posting results >>>here of Tiger 2004. It seems after a long pause since Tiger 15 that Tiger 2004 >>>is not performing, so far, as well as I would have hoped. >>>I passed on buying Tiger 15 waiting for Tiger 16 (2004 , guess) and now I dont >>>expect to buy this version of Tiger for the present time being. >>>Very sad 4 me because Gambit tiger was/is a fun engine... >>>With respect and not wishing to harm Christopher. >> >>From the sound of it, it is a complete redesign. >>I have ordered a copy (which comes with Chess Assistant 8). >>I expect to watch how it plays, to see how much I enjoy it. >> >>I expect big things from Christophe. He has a much faster NPS now, and so he >>has more slack to play with than before. > > >I think that nodes per second are irrelevant here. > >Being twice faster is not more than 50 elo at the ssdf time control and the gap >between shredder and tiger is clearly bigger. > > > > This is an engine that may challenge >>Shredder before long. Sometimes, a step sizeways (or even backwards) is >>necessary before we can take a big step forwards. > >I do not expect it to challenge shredder. >It may be better than shredder8 after enough time but shredder also gets better. > >Uri The problem I see is that it's 2 times faster (Nps) but not 50 Elo stronger. In fact at blitz time control G/5min it is showing only about 10 Elo higher than Chess Tiger 15 after over 600 games. If you increase the speed by a factor of 2 and do nothing else you should get a better improvement than what is showing up in my test. Jim
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