Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:11:21 01/25/00
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On January 25, 2000 at 01:37:52, Tina Long wrote:
>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
I'm glad to hear that you have received the product Tina.
Glad to hear that you have no problem with it.
Christophe
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