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Chess Tiger, a chess engine by Christophe Théron. Chess Tiger and the version dubbed Gambit Tiger competed the WMCCC 1997, WCCC 1999, WMCCC 2000 (3rd place) and the WMCCC 2001, won three times the French Computer Chess Championship, three times the French Programmers Tournament, two times the Spanish Computer Chess Championships, three times the Dutch Open Computer Chess Championship, and the BELCT 2001. As once mentioned by Christophe, Chess Tiger uses a resource friendly 16x16 board vector attacks approach.

=Platforms= Chess Tiger is suited to run on various platforms, an UCI compatible PC version is available from Lokasoft, and Chess Tiger 15 from ChessBase. Recent versions focus on PDAs, Tablet computers, and Smartphones, such as the free Palm version, and the releases for Apple's iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, all running under Apples iOS Mobile operating system , also incorporated in Apple's Chess Pro - with coach.

=Descriptions= from the ICGA tournament site

1997
The only tiger playing chess in the world! This program, developed under the Caribbean sun, is a blitz specialist. Recently it has greatly been improved and rewritten for 32 bits processors, bringing its level close to the best "state of the art" PC computer chess.

1999
Chess Tiger used to be a very good tactical program, but has been improved to include more positional knowledge and is now a more balanced chess player. Chess Tiger is still developed under the sun, in Guadeloupe (French West Indies).

=Screenshots= Early Chess Tiger GUI under MS-DOS

=Selected Games= DOCCC 2001, round 8, Chess Tiger - Fritz [Event "DOCCC 2001"] [Site "Leiden NED"] [Date "2001.11.03"] [Round "08"] [White "Chess Tiger 14.6"] [Black "Fritz"] [Result "1-0"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.c4 Nc6 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 g6 9.Nde2 Bg7 10.f3 O-O 11.O-O a6 12.a4 Qd8 13.Be3 Nd7 14.b3 Qa5 15.Qd2 Rfd8 16.Rab1 e6 17.Bg5 Nf6 18.Rfd1 Rd7 19.Bh6 Rad8 20.Bxg7 Kxg7 21.Nf4 Ne5 22.Rb2 h6 23.Rbb1 Qc7 24.Re1 Qc5+ 25.Kf1 Qb4 26.Red1 Qc5 27.Qe1 b6 28.Rd2 Kh7 29.Nd3 Qd4 30.Ne2 Qe3 31.Rbd1 Nxf3 32.gxf3 Qxf3+ 33.Qf2 Qh1+ 34.Qg1 Qf3+ 35.Ke1 Nxe4 36.Rc2 d5 37.Ne5 Qxb3 38.Nd4 Qxa4 39.Nxd7 Rxd7 40.Qe3 e5 41.Nb3 Qc6 42.Rb2 d4 43.Qf3 Rc7 44.Rdb1 Nc3 45.Qxc6 Rxc6 46.Ra1 Rxc4 47.Nd2 Ra4 48.Rxa4 Nxa4 49.Rc2 Kg7 50.Nf3 Kf6 51.Re2 Kf5 52.Rxe5+ Kf4 53.Kf2 d3 54.Re7 f5 55.Ne5 Ke4 56.Ke1 Kd4 57.Kd2 Nc5 58.Nxd3 Nb3+ 59.Ke2 b5 60.Re6 a5 61.Rxg6 h5 62.Rd6+ Ke4 63.Nf2+ Ke5 64.Rb6 Nd4+ 65.Kd3 a4 66.Rb8 a3 67.Kc3 a2 68.Ra8 b4+ 69.Kc4 b3 70.Nd3+ Ke4 71.Nc5+ Ke3 72.Nxb3 Nxb3 73.Kxb3 f4 74.Kc2 Ke2 75.Rxa2 h4 76.Kc1+ Ke1 77.Ra4 f3 78.Rxh4 Ke2 79.Rf4 1-0 View this game on Lichess.org

=Forum Posts=

1998 ...

 * Chess Tiger on LCT2 by Christophe Théron, CCC, March 26, 1998 » LCT II
 * How Can I buy Chess Tiger ? by Arctor, CCC, September 26, 1999
 * Chess Tiger on the SSDF: the story by Christophe Théron, CCC, September 27, 1999 » SSDF
 * Open proposition to the SSDF about Chess Tiger 12.0 by Christophe Théron, CCC, September 29, 1999
 * Chess Tiger 12.0 wins the FCCC together with Capture by Christophe Théron, CCC, October 10, 1999 » FCCC 1999
 * To Chrisophe Theron, about Chess Tiger and Genius and Rebel by Heiko Mikala, CCC, October 18, 1999
 * Chess Assistant 5.0 (Chess Tiger 12.0 is included) in January, 2000 by Victor Zakharov, December 18, 1999 » Chess Assistant

2000 ...

 * Chess Tiger question ... by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, October 18, 2000
 * tiger's play too risky ? by Ulrich Türke, CCC, April 06, 2001
 * Chess Tiger for Palm, free text mode version available by Christophe Théron, CCC, May 19, 2001 » Palm
 * Chess Tiger and Rebel, the first programs to win against the Internet by Ed Schröder, CCC, May 28, 2001 » Rebel
 * Chess Tiger 14.5 for Palm... by Christophe Théron, CCC, July 10, 2001
 * Chess Tiger 14.6 Dutch Open Champion 2001!! by Kevin Strickland, CCC, November 04, 2001 » DOCCC 2001
 * How strong is Chess Tiger on Palm ? by Thomas Mayer, CCC, November 09, 2001
 * Longer analysis with Chess Tiger 14.0 ? by Gian-Carlo Pascutto, CCC, February 20, 2002
 * Chess Tiger 14.9 for Palm available - just great! by Kurt Utzinger, CCC, April 03, 2002
 * Open Dutch CC: Chess Tiger champion by Theo van der Storm, CCC, October 27, 2002 » DOCCC 2002
 * Chess Tiger 15 in the Chessbase (Fritz) GUI by Christophe Théron, CCC, April 06, 2003 » Fritz
 * Chess Tiger 15.1 free update by Christophe Théron, CCC, September 15, 2003
 * New version of Chess Tiger delayed because of a serious bug by Christophe Théron, CCC, July 26, 2004

2005 ...

 * Chess Tiger on PPC by Mark Rawlings, CCC, June 17, 2005
 * Chess Tiger 2007.1 has just been released by Christophe Théron, CCC, April 15, 2007
 * Gambit Tiger by Marek Soszynski, CCC, April 25, 2008
 * To Jeroen and interested minds, re. Tiger node count by Christophe Théron, CCC, August 15, 2008
 * Chess Tiger 2009 for Palm by Kaj Soderberg, CCC, October 18, 2008

2010 ...

 * Chess Tiger 2004 by David Shanholtzer, CCC, February 13, 2010
 * Re: DeepTiger by Christophe Théron, CCC, May 21, 2010
 * Daily iPhone chess programs releases by Julien Marcel, CCC, March 08, 2011
 * Help: I need testers for the iOS version of Chess Tiger by Christophe Théron, CCC, May 09, 2011
 * Chess Tiger for iOS has been updated by Christophe Théron, CCC, May 25, 2011
 * Strange error in "Chess Pro - with coach" by Jens Bæk Nielsen, CCC, August 13, 2013

=External Links=

Chess Tiger

 * Chess Tiger's ICGA Tournaments
 * Chess Tiger from Wikipedia
 * Chess Tiger: the best chess program for iOS (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad)
 * Chess Tiger: the best chess program for iOS (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad)
 * Chess Tiger: the strongest computer chess program for the Palm - free download
 * Chess Pro - with coach for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
 * Chess Tiger 2007 from Lokasoft
 * ChessTiger 15 from ChessBase Shop
 * CHESS TIGER: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
 * Chess Tiger - About us

Misc

 * Tiger from Wikipedia
 * Siberian Tigers, Siberian Tiger Pictures, Siberian Tiger Facts - National Geographic
 * Dance of the Tiger from Wikipedia
 * Kokolo - Soul Power on Sheree North's Tiger dance, YouTube Video

=References= Up one Level