Author: Lanny DiBartolomeo
Date: 14:30:38 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. > >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. Rebel10 truly is terrific I have know trouble with it running on windows98 pentium 133 (i know its not that fast when you see 450mhz!!) Ill tell you it plays very very strong its like (to me Hiarcs 6 on steroids!)
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