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Subject: Re: Why does tiger lose games on time?

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 14:49:57 12/12/99

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On December 12, 1999 at 17:30:09, blass uri wrote:

>On December 12, 1999 at 15:31:00, Lex Loep wrote:
>
>>On December 12, 1999 at 12:31:03, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>
>>>maybe there is a bug in rebel-tiger and this bug has ont been fixed?
>>>maybe second time controls extra time is not added in the tournament
>>>controls. you cannot find out by playing only blitz games.
>>
>>There is no bug in rebel-tiger as this happens when the time increment is
>>zero ! The games where played with 3 minutes and no increment.
>
>If there is no bugs then I understand that tiger was designed to lose on time in
>3 0 games so I see no point in these games.
>
>Other programs like crafty are not designed to lose on time and can do 60 moves
>in  a second.
>
>It is not a problem of the hardware because the hardware of crafty is clearly
>less than 30 times faster than the hardware of tiger and tiger cannot do 60
>moves in 30 seconds when crafty can do 60 moves in a second.
>
>Humans who buy chess programs usually are interested in analysis and not in 3 0
>games so it is not important.
>
>Uri
Your are right, it has not importance.

Lex




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