Rebel TNG (version 1.0) approximately 2950....

[Werewolf]

Hi Ed,

This is amazing, thank you!

I was wondering, are Rebel Century 3 and 4 available as UCI engines?

If not do you have any plans to make them available...?

[peter]

Hi Ed!
What's that?
http://www.top-5000.nl/First-of-May.htm
yesterday showed the following text:

It's May-1 folks, the April-1 dream of pattern recognition giving an 250+ elo boast is an illusion, in reality a Stockfish version was running in the background passing information to ProDeo. Best moves of StockFish were simply rewarded by ProDeo with a bonus of 0.50.
Stockfish from now on is disabled and this version now behaves exactly as the last ProDeo 1.88.
Like with the boy in the great Bee-Gees song only sweet memories remain.
Want to know the technical details how it was done, there are no (obvious) Stockfish traces, right? Well, that's part of the after-fun, surely there must be some smart dudes who will figure it out, please don't disappoint me (at Talkchess).
I want to thank the StockFish team who gave their fiat for this April-1 jest.
Ed

The site couldn't be reached today anymore, but here a copy stored in cache works for me:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http:/ ... J9euATMROw
Which one's the April- joke, the engine or yesterday's text, if it came from you indeed.
In immortalchess- forum already at 30th of march the theory of Stockfish as a second engine arised.

[F.Huber]

In immortalchess- forum already at 30th of march the theory of Stockfish as a second engine arised.

That's not a theory, that's a fact!

The file 'prodeo.pat' in the 'eoc' folder is in fact an UPX-packed Stockfish engine (which is called by RebelTNG), and if you set your system date to any day in May and start RebelTNG you'll see the truth:
it opens a text-file and the above mentioned website (which has now been removed though) showing that this 'RebelTNG' is just a joke.

Franz

[peter]

Thanks a lot, Franz!

[Rebel]

In immortalchess- forum already at 30th of march the theory of Stockfish as a second engine arised.

That's not a theory, that's a fact!

The file 'prodeo.pat' in the 'eoc' folder is in fact an UPX-packed Stockfish engine (which is called by RebelTNG), and if you set your system date to any day in May and start RebelTNG you'll see the truth:
it opens a text-file and the above mentioned website (which has now been removed though) showing that this 'RebelTNG' is just a joke.

Franz

Boy, you guys are good, but I never underestimated you, well done... The link is restored. To be complete: open the file "prodeo.pat" into a hex-editor, replace the first 2 bytes with "MZ", save it as an executable and run it.

[Ponti]

It doesn´t seem to work under Aquarium.
I´ve tried both winboard and UCI engines.
Is there a fix ?

[carldaman]

In immortalchess- forum already at 30th of march the theory of Stockfish as a second engine arised.

That's not a theory, that's a fact!

The file 'prodeo.pat' in the 'eoc' folder is in fact an UPX-packed Stockfish engine (which is called by RebelTNG), and if you set your system date to any day in May and start RebelTNG you'll see the truth:
it opens a text-file and the above mentioned website (which has now been removed though) showing that this 'RebelTNG' is just a joke.

Franz

Boy, you guys are good, but I never underestimated you, well done... The link is restored. To be complete: open the file "prodeo.pat" into a hex-editor, replace the first 2 bytes with "MZ", save it as an executable and run it.

Heh, maybe my initial gut feeling was correct after all... April Fools' Day came early this year

[Rebel]

In immortalchess- forum already at 30th of march the theory of Stockfish as a second engine arised.

That's not a theory, that's a fact!

The file 'prodeo.pat' in the 'eoc' folder is in fact an UPX-packed Stockfish engine (which is called by RebelTNG), and if you set your system date to any day in May and start RebelTNG you'll see the truth:
it opens a text-file and the above mentioned website (which has now been removed though) showing that this 'RebelTNG' is just a joke.

Franz

Boy, you guys are good, but I never underestimated you, well done... The link is restored. To be complete: open the file "prodeo.pat" into a hex-editor, replace the first 2 bytes with "MZ", save it as an executable and run it.

Heh, maybe my initial gut feeling was correct after all... April Fools' Day came early this year

Yes

Chessbase has an April-1 habit, I wanted the advantage.

[Rebel]

Hi Ed,

This is amazing, thank you!

I was wondering, are Rebel Century 3 and 4 available as UCI engines?

If not do you have any plans to make them available...?

If I ever find inspiration to dive into that old stuff again Century 4 would be my choice. It was more or less the last version (like Fritz 10) that had its focus on playing GM's.

[Jorge Garcia]

I can't understand why have you done this fake, it's simply disgusting...
I respected you as a programmer and you had a good reputation in this
comunity...
sad news!