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Subject: Re: For Ed: Upgrade for Century?

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 04:19:07 01/13/00

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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.
>
>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


Hi Ed, will the isue on Century's quitting to the promp at certain positions at
longer time controls be fixed as well?

Ernst-J.

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