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Subject: Re: For Ed: Upgrade for Century?

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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