Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 02:02:43 07/19/99
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On July 19, 1999 at 04:24:06, Harald Faber wrote: >On July 19, 1999 at 03:38:30, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>I just had hopped over to Ed's website (www.rebel.com) because I haven't been >>there in a while. He has a new thing in the top-right corner with many >>positions, and how Rebel's play is affected when tweaking a parameter (chess >>knowledge, pawn structure, king safety, "attractiveness" (I think he means king >>tropism), level of search extensions, et cetera. Somewhere else at the site, it >>indicates that in the future there will be a contest to see who can come up with >>the best settings for Rebel, including cash prizes! There will also be defaults >>adjusted settings for various GMs, similar to Chessmaster. Cool! >> >>What I am wondering right now is... how the heck is Ed is going to be able to >>decide which set of adjusted settings are the best? :-) >> >>Dave > >Ed is just clever. It will be kind of contest for the customers/users to find >the best/strongest settings. This will save some time for him and finally it >isn't the worst idea as many users may find better settings faster than he >would. Ed wrote more info to come when the new Rebel will be released. I realize he is being clever, as you put it. Of course, $1000 is nothing to sneeze at either, so if people who don't develop their own programs are going to doink around with search and evaluation settings, they may decide that they might as well doink around with Rebel's and see if they can win. Dave
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