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Subject: Re: Rebel8 and Rebel9 on SSDF.

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 03:00:57 12/11/97

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On December 11, 1997 at 05:50:17, Kai Lübke wrote:

>On December 11, 1997 at 01:13:31, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>I also hope, that error is corrected very soon! If one tester has played
>>100 games with wrong book, the effect to rating can be quite high.
>>
>>But it's very clever, that Rebel always uses best (default) settings
>>after
>>start (=main book & tour book). So You cannot use wrong book by
>>mistake...
>
>Yes, you can!
>Rebel _activates_ the main book automatically at startup, but it uses
>the
>book that was most recently loaded.
>So if you play a game with the R8 engine and the R8 book, then quit and
>restart, you still have the R8 book active!

Is that what happened in your Tournament 4 game of CM5500 vs Rebel 8?
I believe you mentioned that Rebel 8 played that game using the Rebel 9
opening book.



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