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Subject: Re: Caution to Rebel Century users

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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