Author: Pillsbury
Date: 12:16:59 11/08/99
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On November 08, 1999 at 00:53:55, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 07, 1999 at 21:53:50, Pillsbury wrote: > >>On November 07, 1999 at 14:08:59, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>> >>>Thorsten, don't lose your time with Harald and Pillsbury. They are trying >>>childishly to make a point with a small number of games. >>> >>>Looks that they have a problem with Tiger, I don't know why... >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >> >>I have no problem with the program.....I do not have it anyway! >>I have no problem with the programmer.....as I believe that commercial >>programmers do a great job.....and Tiger will be for sale soon( If you remember >>my posting about Tiger, you should also remember my posting about Freeware.) >> >>I just do have problem about a program building up momentum before even it is >>released and proven in several areas like computer versus computer ( for which >>it is specially prepared), against humans, database, interface, customer service >>etc., etc., >> >>I consider 'Time' as the best test against anything! If 'Tiger' stands the test >>of time I will much appreciate the program. You will see me posting >>'Congratulations' wishes to Tiger. You keep up the good work. And it will speak >>for itself. There would not be any need for 'support' and you would not care >>about opposition. >> >>I am pretty sure people who follow my thoughts will be benefitted as far as >>'Time' and 'Money' are concerned. >> >>Thanks. >> >> >>karthick > > >This is a sensible post from you. > >I want to repeat one more time that Tiger is not specialised against computers. >I don't have many of the top commercial programs, and I don't use most of the >one I have. For example I don't have Nimzo, CM6000, Shredder, Hiarcs, MChess. > >If I really wanted to specialize against computer programs, do you think I could >do without these? > >I do have Fritz5.32 and Junior5 (Matthias Wüllenweber from ChessBase sent them >to me several months ago). Junior is not installed on my computers (I had to >remove it shortly after having installed it), and I have reinstalled Fritz5.32 >just yesterday. It had been removed from my computer several weeks ago when I >reinstalled Windows95. > >I don't spend my time autoplaying Tiger against other commercial programs. I >have other means of testing my program. For the release of version 12.0 I have >autoplayed against Genius5 and Fritz2 on 486dx2-66 to make sure that my Auto232 >support was working. I did several 40 games match just AFTER the release because >some testers had problems with Auto232 (I had no time to test before the program >was released, I'm not especially proud of this). > >I hope you are not going to call this specialization against computers. > >Against humans, the last game was played in simultaneous game against Joel >Lautier (2638) and Tiger won. > >I want to add immediately that I'm not claiming that this game is a proof. >That's only one game, and has no more meaning that the result of a tournament >played on few rounds. See what I mean? > >I have no recent data against humans, but as I said before, Tiger has been >developped over the years by playing on a regular basis in my (human) chess club >on very slow hardware (286-12MHz then 386sx-20MHz). > >About customer service and support, the very fact that all the people in the >REBEL-TIGER team (Ed Schröder, Jeroen Noomen, Lex Loep and Christophe Theron) >post on this forum, and in other places, should tell you something about what >our intentions are. > >Further, Schröder BV is a well known company that has always provided good >customer support as far as I know. > >About the interface and database management, I would say that it is not totally >new. The REBEL-TIGER is going to use an improved version of the ChessPartner >interface, which is a solid, clean, Windows9x-compliant GUI. If you want to have >a preview of Tiger's interface, you can download ChessPartner4.2 from the >Lokasoft site. > > http://www.lokasoft.nl/ > > >As for the "test of time", I absolutely agree with you. And I do believe Tiger >will pass this test. I'm working on my program since 1982, Ed has been working >in computer chess for longer, and the company has several years of experience in >marketing computer chess products. > >The momentum that has been built up on Tiger just comes from the people that >have tested it and reported results here. I'm not going to say I'm unhappy with >it, but on the other hand, can you remember the last time a new strong program >entered the scene? > >It does not happen every month. > > > > Christophe Christophe, Thanks for taking your valuable time to reply. I wish you success. And I pray God to give you all the energy you need for several decades to come to stay on top! karthick
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