CHESS TIGER 14.0 AND GAMBIT TIGER 2.0

Christopher Théron's Chess Tiger is the shooting star among the chess engines. It has gained enormously in strength over the past few years as its impressive victories in several international tournaments have demonstrated: the Open Championship of Spain 1998 as well as the French Open Championships 1999 and 2000 (also compare the games in the Fritz forum on this CD-ROM). In autumn of 1999, Chess Tiger entered the ranking list of chess programs (SSDF) and immediately topped the list. Apart from Chess Tiger 14.0, the CD also contains GambitTiger 2.0. Gambit Tiger is a particularly aggressive special version of Chess Tiger which mercilessly applies its additional knowledge to attack the king. That's why Gambit Tiger often chooses moves which other programs would never play. Yet the success of this unconventional way of playing speaks for itself. In autumn of 2000, GambitTiger won the Dutch Open Championship by a long shot. Recently GambitTiger showed its claws in the "Linares of chess programs" and came second behind DeepFritz. In contrast to their direct predecessors, ChessTiger 14.0 and Gambit Tiger also take advantage of the endgame databases (tablebases) and support multi-variation mode.