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Subject: Re: Congratulations to Christophe Theron!

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 02:39:33 01/16/00

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On January 15, 2000 at 21:45:53, stuart taylor wrote:

>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
Hi!

Tiger won clearly against Hiarcs in my 40 game match on 2h/40. I don´t remember
the result but 24-16 or something similar I guess. I don´t think Hiarcs plays
better than Fritz. For the moment I think Junior6 and Fritz plays the "best
chess". Tiger are better than them in tactics and endgames. So far Fritz5.32 are
the only program beating Tiger 21-19 Fritz should probably be outstanding if it
wasn´t for the miscalculation when it misjudges some exchanges. As Uri writes it
often values an exchange to say +1,5 and in the next move immediately sees the
consequences and shows 0.00. In the match against Tiger Fritz was up 1,5-2 about
(Tiger agreed) four times and wrongly exchanged down to a equal endgame. Tiger
saws it almost immediately. One of the above games Fritz lost after a TB-error.

Bertil



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