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Subject: Re: Making REBEL Century easier to beat, fiddle around or play ChessMaster?

Author: Roy Brunjes

Date: 15:40:40 04/09/01

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On April 09, 2001 at 16:21:18, J. C. Boco wrote:

>Reducing time while REbel is set at its strongest settings::  It makes sense
>that it would still be a monster.  Reducing time just won't have that much
>practical effect for people like me (USCF 1400), or people USCF 1800 or below.
>
>Do you think reducing time would have a significant effect, however, if I also
>had picked the Novice setting, or the Average Club Player setting?  If I pick
>the AVerage Club Player setting, how much time should I give Rebel to think?  A
>minute per move?  How much weaker would it be if it were only 1 second a move?
>
>I suppose I'll just have to play a lot to find out, but was hopeing other people
>have thought about this and are willing to share.

There's also the "Define Personality" screen where you can leave all settings
alone except for the Playing Strength.  This can be set from the default of 100
down to 1.  It has a way of limiting the search (timewise) so that in one minute
of real time, it searches only a few ply deep.  That may be worth experimenting
with.

Additionally, you can deliberately change other parameters on that screen to
make Rebel even weaker -- like turning down the King Safety to some low value so
you can get some attacking practice.  Or devaluing passed pawns so you can get
some endgame practice with passers, etc.

Roy



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