Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 00:41:51 11/19/98
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On November 17, 1998 at 12:44:58, Francois Bertin wrote: >On November 16, 1998 at 13:14:30, Komputer Korner wrote: > >>On November 12, 1998 at 17:26:09, Francois Bertin wrote: >> >>>On November 12, 1998 at 15:40:45, greg moller wrote: >>> >>>>Reading KKorner's review I got the impression that Rebel10 'does not support >>>>transpositions'... Can anybody attempt to clarify this statement ? It would seem >>>>odd for a program that boasts such a tremendous book to fail to recognize >>>>transpositions. > >>> Yes, it does. When I enter my games in Rebel for analysis or storing >>>purposes, I am generally in the program's book for several moves, >>>and then the game gets out of it. However, a few moves later Rebel's >>>book often shows up again with suggestions. This, I believe, is a book >>>transposition. When I red KK's review of Rebel 10, I was puzzled by his >>>statement about the absence of transposition. Perhaps he meant books >>>made by the user and not Rebel's original opening book. I have not yet >>>noticed a transposition in a user-made book, either in the MVS or RBM >>>format, but then I have not worked much with such books. I am just >>>beginning to dwelve into that aspect of the program with books I have >>>made about the King's Gambit Muzio, King's Bishop Gambit and Albin's >>>Counter Gambit... :-) > >>Rebel will recognize only transpositions that have specifically been inputted by >>it's authors. Any other transposition is not recognized by Rebel. Contrast this >>with the ctg files that can be used as opening books within Fritz 5 and Junior >>5. They recognize all transpositions and I do mean ALL. > > In a recent post, Ed Schröder alluded to the possibility that future >versions of Rebel would have their opening book solely based on the >EOC database. He seemed to think that one of the positive aspects of >this would be to improve the learning process of the program. Perhaps >transposition possibilities would also be markedly improved? > > François Bertin It may improve the transpositional awareness some but GMs are forever tricking their opponents in heretofore unseen transpositions. The only sure way is to have a position based book structure like Bookup, CDB and Fritz/Junior ChessBase files have. -- Komputer Korner
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