Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:22:10 01/25/00
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On January 25, 2000 at 06:12:12, Michael Cummings wrote:
>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 wonder if Chris or Lex could give some hints as to what maybe will be in the
>next version.
Lex has answered about the GUI part of the program.
I'm in charge of the chess engine.
The planned changes in the engine are:
* better "antihuman" play (playing on the chess servers has helped to find how
to improve against humans)
* a special book suited to play against human players
* personalities (the user will be able to tune the engine, à la ChessMaster or
Rebel Century)
* Improved playing strength. There are already improvements over the engine
tested by the SSDF, and some of them are ALREADY in the commercial version. You
just need to UNLOCK them by changing some settings in the CT.INI file. Go to the
Rebel Home Page (www.rebel.nl) to see how to do it with your own copy. Several
major playing strength improvements are almost ready and will be released as an
engine update.
* A fix for the opening book to avoid what happened against Junior in the SSDF
match
These improvements could be ready very soon.
I think we will provide a free Internet update for our customers in the near
future. I think some of the aforementionned improvements will be made available
in this Internet update.
Christophe
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