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Subject: Tiger strength

Author: Shep

Date: 06:04:55 09/28/99

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On September 27, 1999 at 11:48:31, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>>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.

In fact, Tiger 11.8.2 and 11.5 both came out 2nd in my recent big tournament on
2 PIII-550s, clearly ahead of Fritz and Hiarcs. 11.8.2 would have easily won,
had he not played (and lost) the first two games with the first version of the
big book where losing lines were not flagged as "don't play" (similar to its
experience in Paderborn and in Didzis' Summer tournament).
11.8.x was a definite improvement over 11.7.x, and I'm sure 12.0 will be even
better (can't wait :).
But already 11.4 (the first version I tested) quickly gave me the impression of
GM potential.

>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.

I only hope that some future version will support tablebases, then it will be
almost impossible to beat.

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Shep



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