Author: Charles Unruh
Date: 22:12:52 11/18/99
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On November 18, 1999 at 19:15:48, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 18, 1999 at 18:42:42, Charles Unruh wrote: > >>Theories on Tiger's success. No book learning, no anti-prog x play(?)? It is >>Amazing that it appears that tiger 12.0 could end up being 30 to 40 points >>higher rated than any other program, without book learning or optimizations >>against the vatious programs. I haven't got around to testing my tiger 12, but >>it's the results are good enough evidence for me. > > >Charles, I have said this several times already: > >* I don't tune my program against other commercial programs. I almost never play >Autoplayer games. "It is Amazing that it appears that tiger 12.0 could end up being 30 to 40 points higher rated than any other program, without book learning or optimizations" I have only one autoplayer cable at home, I use it sometimes >to make sure that Auto232 still works in my DOS version. > >* I don't have many of the top programs. I don't have Nimzo, I don't have >Hiarcs, I don't have ChessMaster 6000, I don't have Shredder. When I play games >against commercial programs, it's always manual games, never more than 4 in one >day, and it's always against Genius5 and Fritz2. > >* Tiger's book learning is almost nonexistent. Tiger just avoid repeating lost >games. Tiger is unable to repeat a won or a draw game, except by pure luck. I >admit this is maybe a mistake, I might change my mind in a future version. "It is Amazing that it appears that tiger 12.0 could end up being 30 to 40 points higher rated than any other program, without book learning or optimizations" > >* Chess Tiger has been developped by playing against human players at my chess >club here in Guadeloupe. I have always used slow computers like 286 12MHz and >386sx 20MHz. > > > > Christophe I wasn't accusing anything, I just asked if anyone had any theories on tigers success.
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