Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Rebel 12 opening book.

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 01:32:11 10/05/03

Go up one level in this thread


On October 04, 2003 at 18:49:46, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:

>Hy guys,
>I have just bought the download version o rebel 12.
>It is an excellent program, but I would like to use a better book (with the
>download one gets a medium-mall book and no ECO).
>
>I have got some old EOC for Rebel 10 from the old site, but they seem to work
>only in part: they are recognized but no position is ever found matching the
>data in the file.

I remember there has been a format EOC change, if you have Rebel 11 or Century 4
MEGA then use these EOC chess trees instead.


>I see on rebel new web page (http://members.home.nl/matador/rebel12.htm) that
>there should be support for managing the opening books natively. But i don't
>understand how.

You can create and maintain user-books (*.RBM), the main-book (*.MVS) is
non-editable.


>If I use the ChessPartner gui opening book tool, I get only the possibility to
>create a book for the chess partner interface, not a rebel native book.
>Hence, I would like to know if somebody knows how to produce (or where to get) a
>better rebel book.

Suggestion:

- Convert a native Rebel book to CP format.
- Modify this book according to your wishes.
- Use this book with Rebel, doing:

Properties -> Books -> Use GUI books



>How to produce an EOC.

There is a DOS utilty to create EOC chess trees, see:

http://www.rebel.nl/edsoft.htm

Also some sample EOC chess trees are offered for download.


>Does anybody understand how one should operate the panel which comes pressing
>F4?
>
>E.g.: for mostof the settings I get a message like "<some action> done" but I
>see nothing happen.
>I have tried to import a pgn file from this panel but I failed. Are there any
>info on how to operate here (the contextual help file explains ho to install WB
>engines).

See the README file, actions are reported in the engine:misc window.



>The only progress I managed to do was to use an external rebel book, I got some
>old books from rebel old site that seem to work fine. They are thematic books on
>specific openings and they can be usend only one at a time,
>and having the ability to merge them would be also helpful.

You will need to use the DOS version for that:

Books -> Join opening books

My best,

Ed



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.