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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger's Playing Style?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 23:29:11 11/18/99

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On November 18, 1999 at 18:35:02, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>What i wanted to say is:
>
>We have programs like
>
>Mchess
>Hiarcs
>CSTal
>Tiger.
>
>They all evaluate positions in a big range of scores.
>Higher positional or speculative scores than other programs.
>
>But -
>Most often when you see Mchess/Hiarcs/Cstal evaluate the positions
>and also from iteration to iteration and often within an interation
>you see the score jump and fail-high, fail-low, changes etc.
>
>Tiger is different.
>It has the same high range to evaluate, but from first second of computation
>to the play out the move the jumps and the score is not changing much.
>
>the score increases or decreases very close to the end-result.
>it gets a fail-high or a fail-low or whatever window, and the next
>big main-line is only 1/100 of a pawn better or weaker.
>it all goes more smooth. more like a wave, not like a quantum leap.
>not jumping but flowing like a river.
>
>anmon has this kind of evaluation too, but still different to tiger.

So the question to Christophe is: "are you using an mtd() technique?"

Dave



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