Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:19:35 07/18/00
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On July 17, 2000 at 21:24:39, Christophe Theron wrote:
>On July 17, 2000 at 18:24:24, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On July 17, 2000 at 13:15:03, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On July 17, 2000 at 09:57:56, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>>
>>>>It seems on Chess servers like ICC of FICS, the Rebel Tiger clones are very hard
>>>>to beat ( Although Gandalf has a some what easy time vs them ). Using Junior 6.0
>>>>engine, I lose quite a bit to them.
>>>>
>>>>Perhaps they could have a better score vs grandmasters at a tounament?
>>>
>>>
>>>There is a special "antihuman" mode in Rebel-Tiger that is used by -apparently-
>>>nobody. It does better than the standard "personality" against humans because it
>>>knows how to handle "closed positions" better, if you know what I mean.
>>>
>>>This special mode will be further improved in the next release of the engine.
>>>
>>>This mode does not work as well against computers because sometimes the program
>>>takes too much risk in order to avoid a closed position, and the strategy can
>>>backfire in this case. So people do not use antihuman mode on chess servers,
>>>because you find too many computers there.
>>>
>>>Unfortunately there as been so far too few games against strong rated humans to
>>>give any measure of Tiger's strength against GMs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Christophe
>>
>>Is your next version of Rebel Tiger almost finish ?
>
>
>
>Rebel-Tiger is improved every day. I work almost full time on the engine and it
>has been constantly improved since the last release.
>
>So "finished" is a word I don't understand. :)
>
>We will published the new engine... as soon as Ed decides it is time to release
>it.
>
As soon as Ed decides it is time.... Of course we are subject to the same form
of torture regarding his new Rebel Century too. Seems like radical methods are
necessary:
- Drown him in whining e-mails. Eventually he'll give in. Even if he doesn't
read the e-mail himself, he'll tire of hiring help to read it.
- Vow to boycott it. Won't work, he'll know we're lying.
- And last but not least (the cruelest IMO), create and send him a test suite
with unsolvable positions (to make the Nolot suite look like a joke), and tell
him that you don't understand why Rebel can't find the solution when every other
program, including my kid sister's, solves the whole thing in slightly less than
a minute.
Ed, are you listening? The people need their programs!
What are you waiting for???
Argggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......
Albert Silver
>
> Christophe
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