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Subject: Re: ...And Schredder 4 and Genius 6,5 are not a terror at 266 Mhz...

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 14:53:52 12/20/99

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On December 20, 1999 at 16:05:35, Charles Unruh wrote:

>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

These post on rebel century are confusing to me at least.How about some hard
facts ! I am interested in a program that will take on H7.32 on 5 blitz. So far
Fritz6 is dissapointing in this regard.




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