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Subject: Re: Congratulations to Christophe Theron!

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 01:42:19 01/14/00

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On January 13, 2000 at 21:59:51, stuart taylor wrote:

>On January 13, 2000 at 19:22:20, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On January 13, 2000 at 18:43:41, Didzis Cirulis wrote:
>>
>>>On January 13, 2000 at 18:08:49, walter irvin wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 13, 2000 at 17:57:11, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hello Christophe,
>>>>>Congratulations on the release of Rebel-Tiger today!  I wish you luck and hope
>>>>>you sell a million copies.
>>>>>Jim Walker
>>>>
>>>>i know i must have it ,i want to see if it is as strong as advertised ?
>>>
>>>Believe me, Walter, it is! :-)
>>>
>>>Congrats, Christophe!
>>
>Were there actual improvements still being made during this period of
>delay?(e.g.trapped bishop awareness,or similar things.Or improvements of
>any of its less strong points?)[I wasn't claiming that it lacked sufficient
>trapped bishop awareness-necesarily].
>  Indeed, what are its strongest points?
>   Is it top of the field for sure, in any particular area? e.g.Tactics,
>knowledge, looking ahead, accuracy, human-like, instructiveness to humans,
>precision, romantic etc?
>Stuart Taylor

Hi!

IMO it´s the best of all programs in tactics and endgames. The style is very
unromantic, more like Petrosian, it provokes weaknesses and plays against them.
The book favours quiet openings i.e. the exchange-variation in French, closed
Sicilian and so on. The scores are very accurate.

Unfortunately it is some bug(?)in the book-learner with the consequence that it
loses against 1.d4 over and over. Or is it only a narrow line in the slav
defence. Anyway it is very boring to see it loosing in the same variation game
after game after game. I hope this gonna be fixed, otherwise I guess Tiger´s
first place in the SSDF-list could be a one timer.

Bertil SSDF


>>
>>Thanks a lot guys!
>>
>>I want to apologize for the delay. I know many peoples here are waiting for the
>>Rebel-Tiger since a long time.
>>
>>The engine is ready since a while, and has been tested by the SSDF since a while
>>too, but we had to work to adapt the engine into the GUI (and the GUI to the
>>engine :) and to make sure everything was working well.
>>
>>I hope you will all enjoy this new chess program.
>>
>>
>>    Christophe



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