The long awaited successor of REBEL 11

After many months of hard work  Christophe Théron again has managed to create a stronger engine. Chess Tiger 15 combines the strong points of Chess Tiger 14 and Gambit Tiger 2 engines.


Chess Tiger 15 in a nutshell  

• Large opening book by Jeroen Noomen
• Four different playing styles: 'normal', 'gambit', gambit agressive', and 'gambit suicidal'
• ChessPartner 5.2 GUI
• All 3 and 4 man tablebases plus the most important 5 man tablebases.
• Chess Tiger 14.0, 2 GM norms in Argentina, elo 2788, topping the SSDF list of December 2001.

What's new

• Stronger engine, estimated 50 ELO points stronger than previous version.
• Four different playing styles.
• Improved search algorithm.
• Improved evaluation function. 
• New enhanced opening book.
• Support for Winboard II engines.
• Support for UCI engines.
• Multi variation mode.
• New engine import wizard.
• Game result is send to engine, this is to better support learning in some engines.
• Option to change digital clock font and colors.
• Option to use mouse wheel to move through game.
• Option to change internet console font and colors.
• It is now possible to promote and move variations.
• Click / Click move entry.
• Single click smart move option.
• Better display of font based piece sets.


Bug fixes:

• Fixed en-passant bug in Nalimov tablebase handling.
• Fixed some bugs in variation handling.
• Now correctly remembers the last use internet consoles profile.
• When adding book lines for white or black only, they are now
correctly marked as such in the book. Also the score is properly set.
• Corrected the 10th second display in statistics window.
• Result of analyze mode now also shown in score histogram.
• Internet play now also works on jogo.cex.org.br chess server.
• Fixed spelling error in stalemate message.
• Now correctly shows stalemate when it is the players turn.
• Promote dialog is not shown for some obvious invalid moves.
• Removed time limit from Engine Research Tool.

Read full details about the ChessPartner 5.2 gui here...

Results, Playing Strength, Reviews

Some test results here.. .

17 excellent written reviews about Rebel 11.0

Tournaments, matches and other playing strength results.

 

Some results obtained during our beta period (thanks to Sarah)
2 x TB 1400, 5 Piece tablebases, Autoplayed.

40/40 Tiger 15 Normal Style
+2 -2 =6 v Fritz 7 001
+3 -2 =5 v Hiarcs 8
+5 -1 =4 v Junior 7
+2 -2 =6 v Shredder Paderborn
+5 -2 =3 v Deep Fritz
+4 -2 =4 v Tiger 14.0
+4 -0 =6 v Gambit 2.0
+3 -2 =5 v Fritz 7 008
+3 -2 =5 v Shredder 6
+3 -3 =4 v Junior 6a
+6 -1 =3 v Crafty 18.15
+2 -1 =7 v Deep Fritz 7