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Subject: Re: Rebel 12 (DOS) : Best engine = ?

Author: Eelco de Groot

Date: 00:25:05 08/26/03

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On August 26, 2003 at 00:27:19, Roy Brunjes wrote:

>I am growing ever fonder of Rebel 12's abilities and style.  I wonder though if
>the Rebel personality (the default engine) is the strongest.  Usually, Ed makes
>what he believes to be the best personality the default, so I imagine this is
>true here, but I want to make sure.  Or is the Rebel-XP engine stronger?
>
>By the way, so far, turning off the mouse has solved all hanging problems --
>though I have only discovered this as of today, so more testing is needed.  So
>others that have this problem may try this workaround.  The program is still
>functional with just function keys and typing in moves by hand.
>
>Thanks for help with the strongest engine question.
>
>Roy

Hello Roy,

As far as I could see, the DOS and Windows versions since the update have all
the same options for creating new personalities. There are a lot of options!
I tried the Dos version once but the personality editor isn't functional
anymore, I cannot recommend that part of the DOS version! Ed also said to just
use a texteditor like Notepad. That works fine for the Windows version too
(until it expires of course...). I could not detect speed differences between
DOS and Windows.

Copying Thorsten a bit,  I have put some experiences on Rebel board with Rebel
Style Betazoid but I don't have all those nice Star Wars posters on the walls!
By all means try if the move ordering parameter has some effect for your
personalities.

See also Ed's page http://members.home.nl/matador/engine.htm
And Thorsten has his Rebel journal online here
http://www.thorstenczub.de/rebel12.html
http://www.thorstenczub.de/rebelxp.html and further
http://www.thorstenczub.de/rebelxp2.html
http://www.thorstenczub.de/rebelxp3.html
http://www.thorstenczub.de/rebelxp4.html

Regards,
Eelco




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