Author: Tina Long
Date: 22:37:52 01/24/00
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On January 24, 2000 at 21:17:00, Laurence Chen wrote: >On January 24, 2000 at 20:37:41, James T. Walker wrote: > >>On January 24, 2000 at 19:49:46, Laurence Chen wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> I've just got my Rebel-Tiger today, and I've installed in my computer. One >>>thing I tried to do was to select the opening book, and it is grayed out. Also I >>>noticed that the endgames tablebases does not work, it's missing the >>>CONFIGURATION program as stated in the manual in order to activate the Ken >>>Thompson's Endgame CD's. So where is this utility? I must say that I am very >>>disappointed with the Chess Patner interface specially when things don't work as >>>it says in the manual that it's supposed to work. Can someone provide some >>>clues or answers? Thanks. >>>Laurence >> >>Hello Laurence, >>Welcome to the club! If you close the program and restart it it may find it's >>book as that's what worked for me. Don't worry, it will lose it again during >>the course of using the program. I don't think the endgame tablebases work with >>Chess Tiger. They may work for the other Chesspartner program provided but I >>didn't try it. The GUI was a piece of junk 8 months ago when I tested it and >>not much has changed since then. They have fixed a few minor bugs but it needs >>a lot of work. They also mention that Lokasoft does not support the auto232 >>function so if it works great but if it doesn't work don't come complaining to >>them. That's a great piece of customer relations. The internet server >>functions are miserable. Almost nothing works automatically and none of the >>settings you click in are remembered one game later. The help manual in the >>program is pitiful. I also played 10 blitz games of Tiger vs Junior 6 and >>Junior 6 won 7-3 so this thing has just made my day. It's hard to believe I've >>spent the last 3 months waiting for this junk. I'm going to spend all day >>tomorrow reading the manual looking for the magic words that make everything >>work the way it should. >>Cheers, >>Jim Walker >Yup, so much expectation and so much hope, and it makes me wonder where it went >wrong. Now that I come to think about, it would have been a much wiser decision >of my part to have saved the money and bought the Chess Assistant 5 upgrade, >which also comes with the Rebel-Tiger engine, and it is stated in the >advertisement that it will work as an add-on engine (although I would not hold >my breath) with the new Millenium software. It would be good if this new engine >does work as an add-on engine for the Millenium, at least I can use their GUI, >and for sure the Ken Thompson's Endgame Database would definitely work. I got my Tigger yesterday. It installed okay & the book works fine so far. In ratings out of 10 for what I want: Engine (9) Super strong but I suspect slightly not-excellent positionally. GUI (6) I'd really like a "next best", and the Hiarcs & Fritz: 3 or more lines in position Analysis. But I can happily sit & play against it, which is what I want to do. Incidently I give the Fritz 6 GUI (9). I'm certainly not complaining about Tigger, I knew what I was getting & the GUI has been well debated long ago. My attitude is that this is a "version 1" & version 1 always has shortfalls. I always find out about what I'm buying before I spend - that's my main reason for being here. I will buy another Tigger when the GUI has improved functions. Just my 2dm worth Tina Long
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