Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 09:46:28 09/27/99
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On September 27, 1999 at 11:48:31, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On September 27, 1999 at 11:00:15, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On September 27, 1999 at 10:53:50, Torstein Hall wrote: >> >>>Actually tiger is the strongest ( or more correct: Has the higest rating for a >>>program running on a P90 )program on a P90 ever according to SSDF chairman >>>Thoralf K! >>>I think most people with interest in computer chess knows that this meens Tiger >>>is pretty strong! >> >>I think since many people have shown in the past that they are unable to >>read accurate, there will be a mass of people thinking tiger is not that >>strong, otherwise the ssdf-guys would have tested it on serious hardware. >> >> >> >>>Torstein >> >>i know you know it. i know some others too. but - we are not >>the problem. >>the problem is all the others who never have heard the name tiger. >>who don't know christophe. >>it needs time. it needs time. i am sure one day the ssdf will >>get it on fast machines. so long we could inform the people about >>the program. how about a match hiarcs-ctiger or fritz-ctiger ? > >How about it? In my tournament played last year on 2 PII-400s, Tiger 11.7.5 beat >Hiarcs 7 6-4 and tied 5-5 against Fritz 5.32, and I hear that Tiger 12 is >improved. > >Something quite extraordinary about Tiger, at least the 11.7.5 version, is that >it plays the best endgames I have seen in CC, in spite of knowing nothing about >specific endings like wrong bishops, Philidor endings, etc. You are in good company with Jeroen Noomen, he is telling me exactly the same. In Paderborn Christophe told me some of his end-game ideas which are indeed very powerful especially in the comp-comp area. Ed >Enrique
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