Author: Tina Long
Date: 22:31:44 10/31/99
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On October 31, 1999 at 23:46:08, eric guttenberg wrote: >I just recently acquired Rebel Century. I have had no trouble installing >or running it and I am impressed with it overall. But I did come across >a little pitfall when I began to experiment with the various chess personalities >in the pulldown menu Extra under Define Personality. >I discovered that upon exiting Define Personality and returning to the >board it is not enough to set it at its strongest settings via the Option menu. >Before exiting Define Personality, you must load the Rebel >Personality. If you do not, if for example you leave Define Personality >with the Novice Personality showing, and set the strongest settings in >the Option menu, it will look like you are playing Rebel Century at its >strongest (the Option menu will show the normal personality) but in fact >you will be playing the Novice Personality regardless of what the Option >menu says. >This could lead to some disappointing results of course. So be warned. >If you experiment with selecting or creating personalities under the >Extra menu, reload Rebel before you go back to the Board,or you may be >fooled into thinking it is not a strong program. At its default settings, >it appears to me to be extremely strong. > >eric Hi guys, I agree with Eric, you can be confused as to what settings you are using. If you have the "Info" Window open, Info=Super, lines=8, it shows you which personality.eng is being used (as well as lotsa other good stuff). I would have preferred if, once I have created or editted a personality, it was only actually used if I then chose it from the Options/Personality Menu. Currently the latest Personality I tweaked automatically becomes the default engine, and my saved personalities are not shown in the Options/Personality Menu. On the other hand, the parameters we get to tweak in Rebel make for some very varied chess playing styles, it's like having a million engines to choose from, I love it. Tina Long
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