Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 18:17:00 01/24/00
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On January 24, 2000 at 20:37:41, James T. Walker wrote: >On January 24, 2000 at 19:49:46, Laurence Chen wrote: > >>Hi all, >> I've just got my Rebel-Tiger today, and I've installed in my computer. One >>thing I tried to do was to select the opening book, and it is grayed out. Also I >>noticed that the endgames tablebases does not work, it's missing the >>CONFIGURATION program as stated in the manual in order to activate the Ken >>Thompson's Endgame CD's. So where is this utility? I must say that I am very >>disappointed with the Chess Patner interface specially when things don't work as >>it says in the manual that it's supposed to work. Can someone provide some >>clues or answers? Thanks. >>Laurence > >Hello Laurence, >Welcome to the club! If you close the program and restart it it may find it's >book as that's what worked for me. Don't worry, it will lose it again during >the course of using the program. I don't think the endgame tablebases work with >Chess Tiger. They may work for the other Chesspartner program provided but I >didn't try it. The GUI was a piece of junk 8 months ago when I tested it and >not much has changed since then. They have fixed a few minor bugs but it needs >a lot of work. They also mention that Lokasoft does not support the auto232 >function so if it works great but if it doesn't work don't come complaining to >them. That's a great piece of customer relations. The internet server >functions are miserable. Almost nothing works automatically and none of the >settings you click in are remembered one game later. The help manual in the >program is pitiful. I also played 10 blitz games of Tiger vs Junior 6 and >Junior 6 won 7-3 so this thing has just made my day. It's hard to believe I've >spent the last 3 months waiting for this junk. I'm going to spend all day >tomorrow reading the manual looking for the magic words that make everything >work the way it should. >Cheers, >Jim Walker Yup, so much expectation and so much hope, and it makes me wonder where it went wrong. Now that I come to think about, it would have been a much wiser decision of my part to have saved the money and bought the Chess Assistant 5 upgrade, which also comes with the Rebel-Tiger engine, and it is stated in the advertisement that it will work as an add-on engine (although I would not hold my breath) with the new Millenium software. It would be good if this new engine does work as an add-on engine for the Millenium, at least I can use their GUI, and for sure the Ken Thompson's Endgame Database would definitely work.
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