Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 21:22:25 01/13/00
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On January 13, 2000 at 22:54:19, Tina Long wrote: >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. Hi Tina, Thanks for defending the good causes. And you are not Rolf! I believe Ernst is referring to another problem that was reported some time ago on Rebel Board but I can't find the precise text at the moment. I have one very long file with all those messages from CCC, Rebel Board, GambitSoft... and absolutely no structure in it. It was something that happened only at very long analysis times and only sometimes with Century. What a dilemma, ignoring all those messages or posting in reply because you totally disagree. Normally we have to e-mail to the moderators of course but as the discussions take such proprtions I suppose there is nothing to it but to let it run its course. I believe some people are actually enjoying just adding fuel to the fire. Best Regards, Eelco
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