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Subject: Re: It does...

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 10:16:59 02/09/00

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On February 09, 2000 at 13:02:30, blass uri wrote:

>On February 09, 2000 at 12:54:24, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>On February 09, 2000 at 12:50:57, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>On February 09, 2000 at 12:25:08, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 09, 2000 at 12:00:36, blass uri wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>2rqr1k1/p3bp1p/6p1/n1pnP3/3pB1b1/PP3N2/2QN1PPP/B1R1R2K b - - 0 1
>>>>>
>>>>>This position is from game 19 between Fritz6a and rebel Century.
>>>>>Rebel Century played 22...Rb8 after 81 seconds and lost the game.
>>>>>
>>>>>My original Rebel Century
>>>>
>>>>That's it. Did Ed send you the patched version that played in my tournament?
>>>>It's supposed to be identical to yours, except for the removal of some code that
>>>>improved the speed by 8%. It had to do with a discussion here between Ed and
>>>>Bob. Later on, Ed found out that this new code harmed Century, removed it and
>>>>sent me the patch.
>>>>
>>>>>(not 1.2) found after less than a minute on
>>>>>pentiumIII450(slower than enrique's hardware) the move
>>>>>22...Nf4 and does not change its mind.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>probably an autoplayer problem.
>>>>
>>>>Nope, I just checked. Century picks Rb8 at ply 7.02 after 15 seconds, +0.38 eval
>>>>and keeps it until ply 9.01, when it switches to Nf4 after 238 seconds, +0.43.
>>>>Ed can confirm.
>>>
>>>I played a game against the original Rebel century that I got when I bought it
>>>and it found Nf4 in less than  a minute.
>>>
>>>I used the infinite time control and told it to move when it used enough time.
>>>It could produce all the moves before Nf4 but swithced to Nf4 after less than a
>>>minute.
>>>
>>>Maybe the difference is because I used the game and not the position without the
>>>game.
>>
>>I used the game too, of course.
>>
>>>I do not know.
>>
>>If you check it with the patch Ed sent me, you will get the same results.
>>
>>Enrique
>
>It seems that this patch is not productive for Rebel Century

Well... what can I say. If Ed sent it for the tournament it must be because it
is at least not worse than the original Century.

> because the
>commercial Rebel century without the patch can find Nf4 faster(only 58 seconds
>on my pentiumII450)

One move, come on.. It doesn't prove that a program is better than another.

Enrique

>Uri



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