Author: stuart taylor
Date: 18:45:53 01/15/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 04:42:19, Bertil Eklund wrote: >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 > > But if it is strongest of all in tactics and endgames, how does hiarcs get 4 good wins over it, and not necesarily by playing 1.d4. century also gets good wins. Do you mean that if fritzes strength is mainly its tactics, so tiger will beat it hands down, because it dosn't have to stand up against the knowledge of say-hiarcs?(against which it had a very tough time). >>> >>>S.Taylor
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