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Subject: Re: ....and mine too

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:

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>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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