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Subject: Re: Century 3.0 Still cannot See the Win in Annand Rebel 1998

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 09:35:38 10/31/00

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On October 31, 2000 at 03:25:16, Harald Faber wrote:

>On October 31, 2000 at 02:32:03, Garry Evans wrote:
>
>>On October 31, 2000 at 01:26:18, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>On October 31, 2000 at 00:57:31, Garry Evans wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rebel Century is an excellent Program and an obvious improvement over it's
>>>>predeccesor. I am a little surprised however that it does not find the winning
>>>>line in Annand Rebel 1998. Here is the Position
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  r4k1/p4ppp/3P3q/4P2P/3b1P2/1r6/pPQ3B1/K1B2R2 b - - id Anand,V - Rebel10 (exp);
>>>>bm d4b2;
>>>>
>>>>After 3 mins on my K62-500 Rebel still refuses to find Qe6!!
>>>
>>>Ooops, not within 3min? This is a shock for me. :-)))
>>>Did you try
>>>a) Gambit Tiger 1.0 and Chess Tiger 13?
>>>b) other programs?
>>
>>No my Rebel 11 CD has not arrived yet, I know fritz6 Solves the position almost
>>instantly
>
>
>There are always positions Fritz solves faster than Rebel as there are also
>positions Rebel plays better than Fritz.
>Century 3.0 needs 14min58sec on my K6-200 to go for Qe6. That means about 6min
>on an Athlon500. Current standard PC is about >800MHz, which may lead to less
>than 4min. Fast enough I think and further hardware development will do the
>rest.
>No need to worry IMO.

What is "solving" in these cases?  Finding the correct move at 0.02 pawns better
than the incorrect move?

bruce




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