Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:23:04 01/25/00
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On January 25, 2000 at 18:53:08, James T. Walker wrote:
>On January 25, 2000 at 12:43:18, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>That's right, Chess Tiger does not use the endgame databases.
>>
>>
>>
>>> They may work for the other Chesspartner program provided but I
>>>didn't try it.
>>
>>
>>That's right, they work with the LChess engine which is also provided with the
>>product.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>Try it first, it works.
>************
>Hello Christophe,
>Thanks for trying to help me. I have found that the auto232 works great as
>"Slave" but I have been unable to make it play vs Chessbase programs as
>"Master". It's not important most of the time since Chessbase as Master works
>great. I have problems when Junior crashes at the end of games sometimes. The
>Chessbase GUI then cannot save the game as it is "Frozen". So I lose the game.
>When I tried to play a "Makeup" game with Rebel Tiger as white I need
>Chesspartner to act as "Master".
>***********
I have not tried myself but I think several testers have tried and for them it
worked.
I hope they will read this and provide you some help.
>>The problem is that we cannot guarantee it will work with any chess program,
>>because the Auto232 protocol is itself very lousy, and has been sometimes
>>implemented in a very lousy way in some chess programs.
>>
>>However, it works rather well. We have been able to autoplay against almost any
>>chess program supporting Auto232.
>>
>>You even have the opportunity to let the program play white and black
>>alternatively, which is an improvement over the original protocol (can be turned
>>on or off).
>>
>>The games can be saved in a database. The percentage of wins/draws/losses is
>>always displayed. You can easily configure the numbre of games to play, the
>>maximum number of moves to play and the timeout before a new game is started.
>>And so on.
>>
>>
>>
>>> That's a great piece of customer relations.
>>
>>
>>That's a piece of honesty. Other companies do not tell you that, but they
>>wouldn't be able either to make any third party program use Auto232 correctly.
>>
>>Anyway Auto232 works with Rebel-Tiger...
>>
>>
>>
>>> The internet server
>>>functions are miserable. Almost nothing works automatically and none of the
>>>settings you click in are remembered one game later.
>>
>>
>>It is possible to save settings with the server profile informations.
>>
>>
>******
>This may be but some instructions would help.
>******
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>This is not serious Jim!
>>
>>You cannot have a decent idea of the strength of the Tiger engine just by
>>playing 10 blitz games.
>>
>>If you play more blitz games you'll notice that Tiger is very strong in blitz. I
>>don't know if it is stronger than Junior6 at this time control, but some testers
>>say it is.
>>
>>So try again with more games, please.
>>
>********
>Of course I understand this. It's just that it seemed to be the iceing on the
>cake after the other problems. As I said in another post it is now playing very
>close in strength to Fritz/Junior and only time will tell how close. I'm
>satisfied that it is plenty strong.
OK. I feel relieved. :)
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>We are not going to leave you alone, Jim.
>>
>>We are here on CCC and also on the Rebel Web site, and we can help you if you
>>tell us what the problem is exactly.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>
>Thank you very much.
>Jim Walker
You're welcome.
I hope the product will give you satisfaction. If you find problems, we will
work to solve them, and we will produce an Internet update.
So far, no serious bug has been reported.
Christophe
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