Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 12:20:06 01/12/00
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>Posted by Fernando Villegas on January 12, 2000 at 11:39:56: > >Ed: >Can we expect some kind of upgrade for Century in a decent lapse of time? Not >that is not a very good program, but after the sad defeat in the last match >againts a GM and after the crushing defeat against Fritz 6,x in Enrique >tournament and, besides, knowing your perfectionistic qualities, I tend to >imagine your are working in something of the sort. Is that so? >Fernando Your guess is right. You can expect an update hopefully in one month. The update will be only a speed issue making Rebel faster in comp-comp. The current state of art is a speed-up of 38% but I am still not satisfied and are in email with Christophe discussing the last things. The speed-up stuff will be caught in a pull-down menu option called "anti-COMP" (or so). Rebel Century has a much more wider selective search (losing as less as chess knowledge possible) than its predecessors and it has done the playing style some more good (more accurate) as explained in a former discussion. This is good against humans, I will not change one bit here. I need the stuff to survive on ICC in the GM challenge cycle. The negative side effect of a wider selective search is less ply-depth. This is bad in comp-comp which didn't had much priority for Rebel Century. I hope the update might change that. Results in Enrique's tournament sofar are bad indeed. But note that on longer time controls Rebel Century is doing well. On the time control of 2 hours a game Rebel Century won the "Cock de Gorter" tournament listed on the Kasparov site. Losing, winning, it's all in the game... Ed
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