Author: Michael Yee
Date: 09:32:16 09/16/03
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On September 16, 2003 at 09:54:40, Eelco de Groot wrote: >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 Hi Eelco, Thanks for the info. I'm a relatively new user of Rebel (started tinkering with free Rebel Decade and recently Rebel 12 DOS), and I didn't have any idea how Rebel used EOC during search. But if Rebel just uses it like a kind of opening book, I guess it wouldn't be a necessity for me. Thanks again, Michael
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