Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 00:38:06 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 00:22:25, Eelco de Groot wrote: > >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 You're right Eelco, there was a position mentioned on the rebel board and in my case at the final position of the Kasparov-The World Rebel exited to the dos prompt at I believe ply 13 at 45 minutes of analysing ( on a PIII-450). I has nothing to do with Windows, as it happends in pure dos as well. Ernst.
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