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Subject: Re: Unpopular Blitzgames against junior 8

Author: Jim Monaghan

Date: 08:43:55 08/01/03

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On July 31, 2003 at 19:37:45, Ed Schröder wrote:

>Eduard,
>
>Try to beat Rebel (DOS), play the ELO-level (Menu OPTIONS). The elo-level
>discards all information from the screen (no main variations, no scores, no
>depths), futhermore you can't takeback moves.
>
>Show CCC your class and beat the thing.
>
>Ed

Hi Ed,

Thanks for explaining this. The procedure is not "full-proof" however. When I
started a game as soon as Rebel was out of book it started to give me a
"hint-move" after Rebel made it's move. You have to have that option turned off
before you start this. Ed, this option shouldn't be allowed in this elo option
as all a player has to do is play the hint move and would probably score a large
number of draws (and perhaps the odd win). This little "bug" needs fixing
otherwise a lot of people could post these "wins".

On my old PII-300mmx/160mb, Rebel tells me it has a 2593 elo rating! As an
aside, you suggest that it's about 2700. Interesting that today's typical
machine is perhaps 9 times faster (that's more then 3 doublings of processor
speed over my antique), yet only about 100 elo stronger. I suspect that the
program's estimate is optimistic and 2500 may be more appropriate. In your docs,
you do say it's rough though ...

Thanks for the program :-)

Cheers,
Jim



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