Author: Bob Riley
Date: 16:03:42 10/29/99
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On October 29, 1999 at 08:40:31, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: [snip] >Yes it's irritating to have a DOS program with which many pc's generate >problems, running Win98, or Win 95 or whatever, like with your mouse driver. I >once installed it on an old P200 and I didn't even got the mouse to work. >Nasty. Unfriendly. I agree Jeroen, but I followed Ed's suggestion and ran it in windows from the start menu, using the "Rebel Century no Vesa" shortcut - and so far I have not had a lockup. (I had a few lockups using the regular windows shortcut). We have an AMD K6-233 MMX with 64 MB RAM on win95 - OSR 2, BTW. > >But: the main reason I still buy it is because of the playing style. As I'm a >very moderate chess player (how friendly put) I will never win from those >programs at full strenght. Fritz6 weaker than Fritz 5.32? Thank heaven. >Now I have just 99.999999% chance of losing against it instead of 99.99999999% >against Fritz 5.32. Yes, I agree with you about playing style. Fritz makes dumb moves in patzer mode (where I play), but Rebel plays well at the "club player" levels (there are two) and doesn't make completely dumb moves. YOu feel like you are playing a person! And you can win at times. > >For me that's 95% reason to buy RC also. I love it again. Shouldn't playing >style count more than interface? Yes! Although I do like the Fritz interface - but Rebel is more fun to play against. I will admit that I do like the Fritz "friend" mode, of course, with the clever comments and hints. But for the joy of playing at the club/patzer level, I think Ed and the Rebel crew have reduced the strength in a more human way than what we see in Fritz. Peace to all! Bob Riley
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