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Subject: Re: Rebel 10 is one hell of a program!!!!!

Author: Mark Young

Date: 11:47:16 10/24/98

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On October 24, 1998 at 13:49:53, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>Rebel 10 is far superior in what it offers to the chess loving public.  The
>complexity of the program is what is causing it to crash.  I find that in order
>to avoid long waits while the program starts after exiting the opening book it
>is necessary to set the hash tables to "0 k ". This makes sense because you
>really don't need hash tables in the opening or even the mid game.  Ed will
>probably offer an automatic fix for this in his next release. You can set the
>hash tables to a reasonable 13 Megs later on.  I don't think that most of us
>have the time to wait for a period of an hour or more for each move and so 100
>Meg hash tables while nice will make your hard drive overwork.

I am finding few problems at all with Rebel 10. Under win98 I am not working the
hard drive at all, even with hash tables set to 120MB on a computer with 128MB
Ram.

I have had only one crash. When I Loaded EOC I did not have the EOC window
active then it crashed. If I have the EOC window active and use EOC or have EOC
used as a book or to help the book as in set to strong. I had no problems. Once
EOC is working, you can close the EOC window without problems.
>
>It is also apparent that the Encyclopedia of Chess when utilized will freeze up
>the computer when the rating program is started. Just don't have EOC on at that
>point and you won't have problems.  When you think about it Ed Schroeder has
>done us a magnificent favor.  The damn thing plays like a human.  It has put the
>fun back in computer chess.  The truth is that this is one quirky program but at
>the price I think  that with a little effort and Eds' help we will have the
>dream program of a lifetime.  Go out and buy it.



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