Author: Charles Unruh
Date: 13:05:35 12/20/99
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On December 19, 1999 at 15:51:01, John Warfield wrote: >On December 19, 1999 at 15:30:57, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi: >>After receiving Millenium package and playing couple of games with each at 40 >>moves in 90 minutes, both Genius 6,5 and schredder 4 in my Armada 266 Mhz with >>more than 80 Mb in RAM, my impressio is that both are very strong, yes, and a >>lot stronger than me, OK, but still they are not so edgy, pushing, enterprising >>and interesting as Century is. Genius 6,5 does not seem to be so different to >>his predecesors: he win against a player like me -2100 elo- , but only after >>heavy fight and an slow atrittions of my forces duly helped by the unavoidable >>tactical mistake that happens after so long a game...Schredder is somewhat more >>sharp, maybe a lot more in middle game, but equally you does not feel he same >>degree of inmediate pressure that Century produces from the very first minute. >>Century begins to make life miserable with the first move after openning phase >>is finished and if you does not know well each line, as it is my case due to >>deep chess lazyness, the slight imprecision in your piece meal improvisation " a >>la Lasker" will put you in problems at once. Not htat Century has longer lines, >>but seems to know what to do in that difficult phase of he game. So, it seems >>we must wait Tiger for something really new. Until now, I consider Century my >>best 1999 purchase. > > > > You Are absolutely Correct about rebel century!! I thought I was the only one >who noticed this sharp rebel playing style!!! It feels way stronger than all >the other programs to me, although it will lose to them. "Way stronger"? Explain
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