Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 14:09:35 01/12/00
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On January 12, 2000 at 15:20:06, Ed Schröder wrote: >>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. Thanks for your answer, Ed, but let me now, as a Century owner and frequent user of it, to be intrusive and say to you that perhaps there are a couple of things than deserve your attention about the playing style. In fact, I will sign just one: the handling of bishops in closed positions. I think a lot has been already said here about how Century shot his feet in the game with the last GM. Cheers fernando > >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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