Author: odell hall
Date: 22:19:02 02/15/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 00:07:47, Christophe Theron wrote: >On February 15, 2000 at 16:43:42, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: > >>On February 15, 2000 at 16:27:29, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>Tiger is NOT focused on comp-comp games. It happens to do well in comp-comp, >> >>Nice understatement. ;) >> >> >>>but >>>it has not been designed with this in mind. >>> >> >> >>I stand corrected. >> >>Point was of course that it's not easy to compare engines on such a one-to-one >>basis. If Kasparov is rated 150 points higher that John Doe, but John Doe never >>lost one of his 1500 games against Kasparov, it can be a tricky question. >>Obviously, John Doe is a Kasparov-man. It was not by choice, but the result is >>the same. Since we have Elo lists, we say : Kasparov is the strongest. >>(very small print: some say Fischer still is...:)) > > >(even smaller prints: reminds me of someone claiming that CM6000 is still the >best) > >;) :) > >(sorry Michael) ;) > > > >>From time to time they pop up - the strongest, the best, you know, but it has >>more nuance than "which one is stronger?" . If we say SSDF rules, we should say: >>you can't compare, because they're not both in the list. >>At that time we resort to other measures, like playing style. > > >I personally find the playing style of Rebel much more enjoyable that the >playing style of Rebel-Tiger. > >And I think that is one of the reason why Rebel does so good against >GrandMasters: it has a damn good positional style. You almost never find a >position that Rebel does not understand. > >Rebel-Tiger (Chess Tiger engine) plays solid chess, but games are not as >exciting. > >One amazing experiment: let Rebel play against Rebel-Tiger. I did this once, and >it was very very interesting. Fireworks all the time, very undecided games until >the last move. > >I do not know why it is so, but these two really spit electricity when they have >to play each other. > > > > Christophe I agree I think Chess Tiger is basically a Glorified Chess Genius
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