Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 09:00:57 07/09/00
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Harsh criticisms of my favourite chess-program! Might I recommend, dear Jeroen, that as your point number four you get yourself a registered copy of ECTool and Century 2.0? Rebel Decade 2.0 at least under ECTool 6.0 successfully survived the acid test of a Garfield and Odie on pogosticks screensaver after two minutes, shutting down the monitor after five minutes and the harddisk after ten minutes under Windows 98 Energy Management on my Celeron 500. With the big scrolling analysis window it is very easy to copy and paste the analyzed lines from Rebel, into any textfile at hand or you can save analysis and your own comments, for each move separately, into the game itself when you save it with ECTool. (Make sure to save the game a first time before adding any comments, though, otherwise you get a rather persistant error message. And if you want to activate the screen again to see what Rebel has come up with don't use the space bar because it resets ECTool to the first position in the move list. The analysis is still there in the window but Rebel continues from that point on analyzing the first move). I'm not even talking about the new possibilities with Century 2.0 yet. Multiple copies of Rebel can be opened at the same time if you have enough memory, if you happened to have a two processor system they can run simultaneously too. You don't have things like the the database of the normal Rebel but very easy import of PGN and EPD. Analysis with Crafty is also possible but only in a more rudimentary fashion as far as I can see. I have to type in "learn=0" and then "analyze" in Crafty itself and there is no output to ECTool AFAIK. I haven't checked if I can put commands in a crafty.rc that ECTool can initialize. There haven't been any difficulties with running other applications while Rebel was working under ECTool sofar on the Celeron. This is some sample output with the Energy Management as described above (and running Internet Explorer 5, reading CCC etc.) about what Decade 2.0 thinks about the position after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 in the Ruy Lopez. It comes up with a somewhat obscure line: 00:00 06.00 0.17 b7-b5 Ba4-b3 Bf8-c5 d2-d3 d7-d5 Bc1-g5 00:01 07.00 0.22 b7-b5 Ba4-b3 Bf8-c5 d2-d3 d7-d5 Nb1-c3 Bc8-e6 00:02 08.00 0.11 b7-b5 Ba4-b3 Bf8-c5 d2-d3 d7-d5 Nb1-c3 Bc8-e6 00:07 09.00 0.06 b7-b5 Ba4-b3 Bf8-c5 d2-d3 d7-d5 e4xd5 Nf6xd5 00:18 09.03 0.10 Bf8-c5 d2-d3 d7-d6 Nb1-c3 b7-b5 Ba4-b3 01:00 10.00 0.07 Bf8-c5 d2-d3 d7-d6 Bc1-g5 h7-h6 Bg5-h4 Bc8-g4 01:06 10.01 0.08 b7-b5 Ba4-b3 Bc8-b7 d2-d3 Bf8-e7 Nb1-c3 b5-b4 02:12 11.00 0.08 b7-b5 Ba4-b3 Bf8-e7 d2-d3 Bc8-b7 Rf1-e1 Ke8-g8 03:39 11.01 0.10 Bf8-c5 d2-d3 d7-d6 Bc1-g5 Ke8-g8 Ba4xc6 b7xc6 18:08 12.00 -0.02 Bf8-c5 Nf3xe5 Nc6xe5 d2-d4 b7-b5 d4xe5 Nf6xe4 21:44 12.01 0.06 b7-b5 Ba4-b3 Bf8-c5 d2-d3 d7-d6 Nb1-c3 Bc8-g4 44:13 13.00 0.07 b7-b5 Ba4-b3 Bf8-c5 d2-d3 d7-d6 Bc1-g5 h7-h6 14:59 14.00 0.02 b7-b5 Ba4-b3 Bf8-c5 d2-d3 d7-d6 Bc1-g5 Bc8-g4 46:39 14.01 0.03 Bf8-c5 Ba4xc6 d7xc6 Nf3xe5 Nf6xe4 Qd1-e2 Qd8-d5 54:21 14.07 0.07 d7-d6 d2-d3 Bf8-e7 Bc1-e3 Ke8-g8 Nb1-c3 Bc8-d7 39:00 15.00 0.09 d7-d6 Ba4xc6+ b7xc6 d2-d4 e5xd4 Nf3xd4 c6-c5 See Ya All, Sorry two people had to be suspended, Had to be done though, Thanks to the moderators, Sorry Thorsten is now all alone with three messages, all by himself and one from Ed from Engineering in an otherwise rather empty forum.. Sorry I didn't check in more often of late, to help get those bean counters running a little higher.. Eelco
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