Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 06:54:40 09/16/03
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On September 13, 2003 at 16:29:06, Michael Yee wrote: >Hi, > >I'll probably be ordering Rebel 12 soon, but I can't decide whether to get the >download version or the CD which comes with EOC. Here are a few concrete >questions I have: > >(1) Does Rebel play better (or at least not worse) using EOC instead of its >normal opening book (if that's even possible)? > >(2) Can Rebel actually use EOC during a game (non-opening) as hinted at in >Alternative Goal 3 [http://www.rebel.nl/rebel10e.htm]? > >(3) Could you create your own "EOC" from a huge database of games and then let >Rebel use it in whatever special way it does [see question 2]? > >Thanks for any advice, > >Michael Hello Michael, Regarding making your own EOCs with Rebel 12, I think it would be a pioneering effort mostly!. No experience with that myself though so I can't say much about it. I do remember that some people have written about it on Rebel Board in the past and experimenting with making their own EOCs, but that was with older DOS versions so I don't know if any of that applies. I think the download version also can do that and has all the other options the CD-version has, but it just doesn't have the big EOC database, so that saves download time. At least that's what I'd assume Lokasoft have done. Yes, I do think Rebel can use EOC knowledge in game play. That has been possible also in the DOS versions. For me the idea that you can do "backwards analysis" by position learning, if that would be possible, would be an interesting use. But I believe for position learning it is not necessary to build an EOC. I would want to be able to switch it all off, especially for engine testing. To be honest, nothing to do with EOC, in time I hope that also all the database functions of ChessPartner will be further improved. With the prerelease version I don't seem to be able to delete games I put in a database. I know some people who liked to put their own games in Rebel DOS databases, made printouts of their results against all the various opponents they'd met at our chess club, made opening overviews and such. For clubplayers those features of Rebel for DOS where an attractive feature. I'm glad that in the final version there is among other thing limited support of older Rebel databases. Ed an Lex:that's great! A big reprogramming effort I think, to try to get older features to work in ChessPartner. Regards, Eelco
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