I haven't seen much discussion on here about the latest version of Rebel, but from my tests it is quite impressive. In case you're not aware, it's a combined effort of two veterans of the CC industry — Ed Schroder and Chris Whittington. I played a bullet match of 100 games between the new Rebel and Shredder 13: 1 min + 1 sec per move, used the Shredder 13 book. The result was 74 wins for Rebel, 2 loses and 24 draws. I know it's a small sample but that implies Rebel is +300 ELO better than Shredder 13. That's amazing. I was also impressed at how aggressive and tactically aware Rebel is. In some of my tests it found tactics quicker than Stockfish. Anyway, it is a fun engine to use. You can get it from this link:
http://rebel13.nl/windows/rebel-16.html
Enjoy,
Steve
Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
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Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
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Re: Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
There is already test result

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01: Lc0 0.28.0 Nvidia RTX 3060 [j92-100] 463,0/550
02: Stockfish14_x64_avx2 [t8] 456,0/550
03: Rebel-16.2 [t8] 455,5/550
04: Lc0 0.28.2 Nvidia RTX 3060 [752187] 453,0/550
05: Stockfish_13_win_x64_avx2 [t8] 450,0/550
06: Ethereal-13.75-pext-avx2 [t8] 443,0/550
07: Ethereal-14.00-pext-avx2 [t8] 441,0/550
08: Stockfish_15_x64_avx2 [t8] 436,0/550
09: Dragon-2.5-64bit-avx2 [t8] 435,5/550
10: Ethereal-13.50-pext-avx2 [t8, e1350standard] 426,5/550



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Re: Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
I got the PGN of this tournament and did some research.
Rebel played only 10 games against each of the 55 engines. Meaning, the tournament results rely on previous results looking at the fact all engines played a lot more games than 10, 400-460 actually.
Some statistics that show some light on the extraordinary result.
Forfeit overview
Real results, keeping in mind the forfeits, top-19 only because of readability
Rebel played only 10 games against each of the 55 engines. Meaning, the tournament results rely on previous results looking at the fact all engines played a lot more games than 10, 400-460 actually.
Some statistics that show some light on the extraordinary result.
Forfeit overview
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Engine Games Forfeit
Rebel-16.2 [t8] 551 3
Toga4-avx2 [t8] 10 2
Dragon-2.5-64bit-avx 10 1
Stockfish_13_win_x64 10 3
Komodo-14.1-64bit-bm 10 3
Dragon-64bit-avx2 [t 10 1
Ethereal-14.00-pext- 10 1
Stockfish_15_x64_avx 10 3
Rebel-14.1.02-ChrisW 10 1
Dragon-2.5-64bit-avx 10 3
Ethereal-13.00-pext- 10 1
Sting-sf-28 [t8] 10 1
Zappa Mexico II x64 10 4
Komodo-14.1-64bit-bm 10 1
EngineDeepShredder13 10 7
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No. Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
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1 Rebel-16.2 [t8] xxxxx 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 5.0 5.0 5.5 5.5 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.5 6.5 6.5 7.0 7.0 7.5
2 Dragon-2.5-64bit-avx2 [t8] 5.5 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
3 Stockfish_13_win_x64_avx2 [t8, ohne NNUE] 5.5 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
4 Stockfish_13_win_x64_avx2 [t8] 5.5 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
5 Lc0 0.28.2 Nvidia RTX 3060 [752187] 5.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
6 Stockfish14_x64_avx2 [t8] 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
7 Lc0 0.28.0 Nvidia RTX 3060 [j92-100] 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
8 Ethereal-14.00-pext-avx2 [t8] 4.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
9 Ethereal-13.75-pext-avx2 [t8] 4.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
10 Ethereal-13.50-pext-avx2 [t8, e1350standard 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11 Slowchess2.8_64-avx2 [t8] 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12 Dragon-64bit-avx2 [t8] 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
13 Stockfish_15_x64_avx2 [t8] 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
14 Komodo-14.1-64bit-bmi2 [t8] 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
15 Dragon-2.5-64bit-avx2 [t8, mcts] 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
16 Ethereal-13.00-pext-avx2 [t8, e13standard] 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0 0.0
17 DeepHiarcs15 [t8] 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0 0.0
18 Stockfish14_x64_avx2 [t8, no NNUE] 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx 0.0
19 Dragon-64bit-avx2 [t8,mcts] 2.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 xxxxx
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Re: Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
With a such a number of forfeits this test is for the trash bin...Rebel wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 11:02 pm I got the PGN of this tournament and did some research.
Rebel played only 10 games against each of the 55 engines. Meaning, the tournament results rely on previous results looking at the fact all engines played a lot more games than 10, 400-460 actually.
Some statistics that show some light on the extraordinary result.
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Engine Games Forfeit Rebel-16.2 [t8] 551 3 Toga4-avx2 [t8] 10 2 Dragon-2.5-64bit-avx 10 1 Stockfish_13_win_x64 10 3 Komodo-14.1-64bit-bm 10 3 Dragon-64bit-avx2 [t 10 1 Ethereal-14.00-pext- 10 1 Stockfish_15_x64_avx 10 3 Rebel-14.1.02-ChrisW 10 1 Dragon-2.5-64bit-avx 10 3 Ethereal-13.00-pext- 10 1 Sting-sf-28 [t8] 10 1 Zappa Mexico II x64 10 4 Komodo-14.1-64bit-bm 10 1 EngineDeepShredder13 10 7
32 forfeits in 140 games for the opponents above, but only 3 in 551 for Rebel.
Could have been a test from cheesequack.
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Re: Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
Tournament has a lot of very weak engines so best programs got 100% from most matches.
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Re: Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
Rebel brings back memories of the good old days of Rebel and Rebel Tiger. What fun aggressive engines they were!
Has anyone ever gotten Rebel to work in Arena? If not, any suggestions as to what Chess program to run it in? My laptop runs Stockfish AVX fine in Arena but Rebel justs sits there.
Has anyone ever gotten Rebel to work in Arena? If not, any suggestions as to what Chess program to run it in? My laptop runs Stockfish AVX fine in Arena but Rebel justs sits there.
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Re: Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
Which hardware (cpu) do you use ?
Rebel works without any problems in arena.
Of course there are several arena versions.
Rebel works without any problems in arena.
Of course there are several arena versions.
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Re: Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
From the website -Paul Bedrey wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 11:39 am Rebel brings back memories of the good old days of Rebel and Rebel Tiger. What fun aggressive engines they were!
Has anyone ever gotten Rebel to work in Arena? If not, any suggestions as to what Chess program to run it in? My laptop runs Stockfish AVX fine in Arena but Rebel justs sits there.
Rebel 16.2 is only available for PC's with AVX2 support. In general, if your PC is older than 2013 Rebel might not run on your system.
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Re: Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
While we're on this subject, is there any update on the new CS Tal?
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Re: Rebel 16.2: Impressive!
Congrats to Ed/Chris for this venture. It's wicked fast, and I can finally use it for my own games & analysis. I always loved the old Rebel's and Tal's ways of playing. Combined looks promising. I understand about the Evalcorrect but what is the TC_Aggression parameter as it seems this is a way of increasing aggression too?
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