Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 00:49:36 09/07/03
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On September 06, 2003 at 21:27:04, Eelco de Groot wrote: >On September 06, 2003 at 19:43:43, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>Athlon 1200, 4' + 2" >>Junior & Nimzo using Fritz 8 book; Rebel using own book >> >> 1 2 3 >>1 Junior 8 ************* 10½½01½1½1011 ½00111½10111½ 16.5/26 >>2 Rebel 12 01½½10½0½0100 ************* 01010101½0110 11.5/26 >>3 Nimzo 8 ½11000½01000½ 10101010½1001 ************* 11.0/26 >> >>Nimzo blew many games, including not winning this one when up a Queen & more for >>a Rook!: >> >>[White "Junior 8"] >>[Black "Nimzo 8"] >> >>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Bg2 c6 8. >>Bc3 d5 9. Nbd2 Nbd7 10. O-O O-O 11. Re1 c5 12. e4 dxe4 13. Nxe4 Nxe4 14. >>Rxe4 Bb7 15. Re3 Bf6 16. dxc5 Bxc3 17. Rxc3 Nxc5 18. Qe2 Qf6 19. Ne5 Bxg2 >>20. Kxg2 Nd7 21. f4 Nxe5 22. fxe5 Qe7 23. Rd1 Qc5 24. Rcd3 b5 25. Rd4 bxc4 >>26. Rxc4 Qb5 27. Qe4 Rad8 28. Rxd8 Rxd8 29. Rd4 Rc8 30. Qd3 Qb8 31. Rd7 a5 >>32. Qa6 a4 33. b4 a3 34. Qxa3 Qxe5 35. Qd3 Qb8 36. b5 Rf8 37. Kh3 e5 38. a4 >>Qe8 39. Qd6 e4 40. Re7 Qc8+ 41. Qd7 Qc4 42. Qf5 Qxa4 43. Rxe4 Qa7 44. Rf4 >>Rd8 45. Rf3 g6 46. b6 Qb7 47. Qf6 Re8 48. g4 Re6 49. Qd8+ Kg7 50. Qd4+ f6 >>51. Rb3 Re2 52. Qg1 h5 53. Qg3 Kg8 54. Qf3 hxg4+ 55. Kxg4 Qd7+ 56. Kg3 Qd6+ >>57. Qf4 Rg2+ 58. Kxg2 Qxf4 59. b7 Qe4+ 60. Kg3 Qe5+ 61. Kf2 Qf4+ 62. Kg2 >>Qd2+ 63. Kh3 Qd7+ 64. Kg3 Qd6+ 65. Kf2 Qxh2+ 66. Ke1 Qg1+ 67. Kd2 Qf2+ 68. >>Kd1 Qd4+ 69. Kc2 Qe4+ 70. Kd1 Qd5+ 71. Kc2 Qf5+ 72. Kc3 Qe5+ 73. Kc4 Qb8 >>74. Kc5 Kf7 75. Kc6 f5 76. Ra3 Qe8+ 77. Kb6 Qe6+ 78. Ka7 Qd7 79. Ra6 g5 80. >>Ka8 Qd5 81. Ka7 Qd4+ 82. Ka8 Qe4 83. Ka7 Qe3+ 84. Ka8 Qf3 85. Ka7 Qf2+ 86. >>Ka8 Qg2 87. Ka7 1/2-1/2 > >Hello Roy, > >There may be some caveats when running Rebel as an UCI engine in Fritz, as it >wasn't designed for that. I doubt if the interfacing has been has been tested >much by Ed or Lokasoft. Ed wrote about the first version of the prerelease: Hi Eelco, All that has been solved in the final version, Rebel now runs smoothly under Fritz and co. Installation description at: http://members.home.nl/matador/rebel12.htm Groetjes, Ed >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >Posted by Ed Schröder (Profile) on July 23, 2003 at 05:28:44: >Hi folks, > >Tries have been made by various people to run the pre-release of Rebel 12 under >other interfaces such as ChessBase, Chess Assistant, Arena. While I of course >have nothing against that I think it is important for you to realize a couple >things, also I want to clear up some misunderstandings I have seen in various >forums. > >1) First of all realize Rebel 12 is developed to run under the Chesspartner >interface, for that it uses the winboard communication protocol with its own >specific extensions exclusively for the Chesspartner interface only. Therefore >it is a small wonder Rebel seems to run smoothly under other interfaces, however >this could be misleading. >. >. >. >3) When running Fritz and co keep in mind that the only solid way to change the >hash table size or choose a different personality is to change the command-line >parameter in the WB2UCI.ENG file, see: > >[OPTIONS] >Program = Rebel12.exe w8 beta1.eng > >w8 = hash table size of 200 Mb >w7 = hash table size of 100 Mb .... see further the README file. > >beta1.eng = the personality of your choice. > >Then after having made the changes restart Fritz, or make sure the Rebel engine >is reloaded again using F3. > >Some comments on this: > >a) Don't rely on what Fritz is telling you regarding the hash table size, the >only real hash table size is defined in the command line, see above. Same for >the personality issue. > >b) HINT - make a shortcut of WB2UCI.ENG on your desktop for easy changes or easy >viewing the contents. >. >. >. >. >5) It is my intention to make Rebel a working winboard engine so that it can run >under other chess interfaces as well, this because as I estimate the work >involved is not too much and I know it will please many of you. In the meantime >keep the Chesspartner interface as your reference regarding playing strength, >other interfaces I can't authorize at this moment. > >6) A word of thanks to all of you who made it possible to get Rebel to work >under other interfaces, first to "Odd Gunnar Malin" the author of WB2UCI, >secondly to the CCC and CSS folks who with unbridled energy made this possible! > >Thanks! > >Ed Schroder > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >I don't know if all that also applies to the update of the prerelease but >possibly so. In the prerelease under ChessPartner itself I also have sometimes >problems changing the hash table size, and you have to check the param.txt file >to see if the proper amount of memory is loaded. Sometimes I set the hashtable >size in ERT first and then switch to ChessPartner again, as that seems to work >better. > >Did you use the Beta1 settings or some other settings for Rebel? > >Regards, > >Eelco
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