  We introduce a variation of direct maximal center gauge fixing: the "direct
Laplacian" center gauge. The new procedure consists of first fixing to the
Laplacian adjoint Landau gauge, followed by overrelaxation to the nearby Gribov
copy of the direct maximal center gauge. Certain shortcomings of maximal center
gauge, associated with Gribov copies, are overcome in the new gauge, in
particular center dominance is recovered.
