Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 10:46:03 07/18/00
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On July 18, 2000 at 10:19:35, Albert Silver wrote: >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 Hi Albert, Yes I have been listening in fact I have read your contribution twice! One of the best ever posted here :-) But serious, the time to release a program is the time when the product is ready and as bug free as possible. Usually beta testing starts 6-8 weeks before the final release and we haven't even started beta testing as things are still in development. I think that next month we will start to give information on our pages what will come. Until then please relax, after that any new yelling is welcome :-) Ed >> Christophe
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