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Subject: Re: For Ed: Upgrade for Century?

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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