Author: Tina Long
Date: 19:54:19 01/13/00
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On January 13, 2000 at 07:19:07, Ernst Walet wrote: >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. My guess here is that you have your screen saver set to turn on after a certain time. Rebel doesn't like this at all.
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