Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 16:29:51 07/15/03
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On July 14, 2003 at 03:41:01, Howard Exner wrote: >00:00:09.2 1,89 9 1647012 Rd6 Bxd6 exd6 O-O Ne5 Qb7 d7 >00:00:15.4 1,89 10 3037801 Rd6 Bxd6 exd6 O-O Ne5 Qb7 d7 >00:00:25.7 1,89 10 5526163 Ng5 >00:00:52.3 1,89 10 3037801 Rd6 Bxd6 exd6 O-O Ne5 Qb7 d7 >00:00:56.1 1,89 10 3037801 Rd6 Bxd6 exd6 O-O Ne5 Qb7 d7 > >Is the move Ng5 at depth 10 the same as Rebel (dos) when it issues a "fail" text >command ? Just curious because it reverts to Rd6 at the same depth. I believe it is Howard, it is what is called a "false fail high". Happens more often with settings that produce "shaky trees" I suppose, or evaluations that are often too optimistic. Otherwise the solution time would haven been shortened to about 5 seconds or so! Q3 takes longer, at least when I tried it in ECTool Century 2, Q5t in Century 2 too favors Ng5 for a longer time. So with new versions of Rebel the personalies also play differently, if not much. Talking about Windows nightmares: I had some troubles with Outlook Express sometimes before but the thing still functioned in a way. Making back-ups of e-mails is not something ever seems to have occurred to the guys in Redmond as something people might want to do. Maybe it is something they saved for their more "serious" e-mail software, Outlook? Now in their latest tries at OE this backup-option can be found in a menu somewhere. Perhaps because there were more customers who put some value on their e-mail correspondence. Back-ups can be done "manually" going to the Outlook Application Data dbx-files for instance, and I should have made some back-up of course but OE seemed to function reasonably for a while. I had to reboot at some point though yesterday when Outlook Express was still open and this proved a disaster. There wére still some messages in my mailbox when I opened it, I am sure I saw them... But now after the reboot the thing wanted to repair itself. Aargh! It asks no permission, which I wouldn't have given without first inspecting the damage anyway. After the "repair" of course my total In-box is gone, about 73 Mb of it. The 73 Mb is still there somewhere but cannot be opened anymore. I managed to retrieve some after much unsuccesful tinkering with the DBX files, with a good shareware utility called DBXtract. I can recommend that as a last resort, but not every message can be restored. It is not totally Microsoft's fault, I think it had something to do with a failed Norman installation too were I also lost all the messages a good while back. That is the kind of thing you hope to avoid by installing antivirus software in the first place... Stupid computers! Anyway I had to try a few times to get this @%%!>OE program, pardom my French, back online after the beautiful self repair, at least I finally got my 'Welcome to Outlook Express!' message in my mailbox again. I was very glad with that, really, before that it said "no more disk space available" and aborted receiving any incoming mail. When you ask the help function what to do, about all they tell you there is just to reinstall Outlook Express in case of problems. Grrr. Anyway sorry for this undoubtedly very boring story! Eelco
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