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Subject: Re: Rebel 12 Upgrade CD eBay Listing - $1

Author: George Sobala

Date: 14:20:38 11/13/03

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On November 12, 2003 at 22:30:12, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On November 12, 2003 at 22:22:06, Dan Sicerly wrote:
>
>>On November 12, 2003 at 21:52:57, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>Great program - I am simply not using it - I spend all my time with either
>>>Chessbase GUI (Fritz), Chessbase or Pocket Chess Genius.  I never got the engine
>>>to work under Fritz 8 and I'm giving up.  I do not have any more time to play
>>>around with it to get it to work.  Ed has been very supportive in trying to help
>>>me and I do not fault him at all.  Rebel 12 has worked just about perfectly
>>>under the Chesspartner as promised.
>>>
>>>You must have one of the mentioned products in the eBay for this upgrade CD to
>>>work.
>>>
>>>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3156017081]\
>>
>>
>>Do you have the latest Chessbase GUI? I haven't had a problem at all getting
>>rebel to work in Fritz, my problem was getting the hash tables to go over 1mb,
>>but that problem has been solved.
>
>Yes - I seem to have a unique problem.  The pre-release verion worked perfectly.
> My machine has not changed at all , the released version simply does not work
>on my machine.  Even if I just start the engine using inbetween outside of any
>GUI, it crashes.  There is  a memory error that is happening that I can't get
>rid of.  I heard of one other person on one machine that this happened to.  The
>other user was also using Win2k, but many other Win2K users are fine.
>
>It's  a little unfortunate because I think Rebel 12 is one of the top engines -
>but I have grown accustomed to Fritz GUI. I have designed my own custom board
>with dark and light green mable squares that go perfectly with the Fritz light
>marble skin.


You might want to try the following Mike: it fixed Rebel-12 for me on Win2K!

============================SNIPPED FROM OTHER THREAD================

>I´ve been playing around with these strange files, and found out, that
>only 2 of them are needed - and they can be 0-byte-files:
>
>WHITE.EOC
>BLACK.BAL
>
>Just create those 2 files (with 0 bytes!) in the Rebel folder,
>and everthing is ok - it runs without any problems as a WinBoard engine
>e.g. in Arena!
>
>(Btw, I´ve also tried to manually send the command ´setvar eocuse 0´ to
>the Rebel engine (within Arena), since this problem has probably to do
>with the EOC database - but this command didn´t work.)
>
>Best regards,
>Franz.

Fantastic! Suddenly Rebel-12 works for me under Windows 2000 under both Arena
(as winboard) and Chess Assistant 7 (as UCI).



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