Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 01:46:19 11/01/99
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>Posted by eric guttenberg on October 31, 1999 at 23:46:08: > >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 Good posting Eric. The option "strongest settings" restores all pulldown settings but leaves the loaded personality unchanged. To ensure Rebel Century's default settings do also a load of the REBEL.ENG personality (menu EXTRA) or press ALT_D. Ed
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