Author: Shep
Date: 09:04:23 04/28/03
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On April 27, 2003 at 21:00:40, J. C. Boco wrote: >Where does REBEL 12 fit into the scheme of things? Going back a few years it >was REBEL 8, then 9, then Century, then 11, then 12. Is this correct? Where >does REBEL XP fit into this scheme? After Rebel 9, there was a Rebel 10 (which I still consider the strongest against other computers :). Then there were 4 "Rebel Century"'s. The "11" and "12" versions were packages "Rebel + Tiger" if my memory is not entirely wrong. >Also, can anyone tell me what is the lineage of Galdalf and ChessTiger? I have >the impression that these programs stemmed in some way from REBEL and have not >charted independent waters in their evolution. For ChessTiger, I believe it >started out as a way to tweak REBEL to enable it to play beter against fellow >computers. Is this true? No. Chess Tiger was an upper average strength program (slightly commercial) for many years (culminating in version 10). Then Christophe decided to do a full rewrite, resulting in the (not published) Tiger 11.x series. After getting encouragement from his beta testers, Christophe got marketing help from Ed Schroeder and published Chess Tiger 12 as "Rebel Tiger 1". At about the same time, he and Ed started sharing many of their mutual secrets, the results of which found their way into both programs. So Tiger has never been a Rebel clone and is still 99% (or even more) of Christophe's own code. Also according to Christophe it was never specifically tuned against computers. > And furthermore, I think Gambit Tiger sprung from >ChessTiger as a way to play even beter against other computers. No, against humans. :) > As for Galdalf, > I only know that he came from Tolkien. Gandalf has a similar story (apart from the "sharing secrets" part); it is marketed by Ed's company, but AFAIK that's his only involvement with the program. -- Shep
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