4.5 Menu Books

The "Books" menu is used for selecting/editing the opening books, Rebel will use during a game:

• In Rebel three opening libraries can be active: the normal book (extension ".MVS"), the tournament-book (in the program itself, so not in a separate file) and a user book (extension ".RBM").
• In selecting a book move, Rebel will give the user book the highest priority and the normal book the lowest.
• In the REBEL.CFG file is saved which kind of opening book Rebel is allowed to use.
• At the start of the program, the normal book and the user book (if available) found in the REBEL.CFG will be loaded.
• If you play from the opening book, the comment section will show you which moves are still available for the current position.
• Additionally, the program knows about 300 openings by name. If the program recognizes a variation, it will display the corresponding opening name with ECO-code in the comment section.

MVS

The Rebel books are stored in a binary format. Therefore this books are very compact and fast to load. The most important Rebel book, using this format is the so called main Rebel book (REBEL.MVS).

RBM

Rebel gives you the possibility of loading your own created opening book. This book needs to have the extension ".RBM" and will be saved in the REBEL.CFG. You can make it yourself by creating an ASCII-file with opening lines. It's very simple to do it yourself:

• to start a new variation start a new line
• give a move by typing the coordinates in four characters, e.g. e2e4;
• after every move you need to type a space which indicates that the program will play this move active, or a minus which indicates that the program will not be allowed to play this move.

Examples

• 4.5.1 Book opening
• 4.5.2 Load opening book
• 4.5.3 Import book from
• 4.5.4 Join opening book
• 4.5.5 Overview MVS-book
• 4.5.6 Analyze MVS-book
• 4.5.7 Show book scores
• 4.5.8 Tournament book
• 4.5.9 Book learning
• 4.5.10 Clear book learning
• 4.5.11 User book
• 4.5.12 Load user book
• 4.5.13 Edit user book
• 4.5.13.1 The Rebel opening book editor
• 4.5.13.2 Remove a variation
• 4.5.13.3 Change priority
• 4.5.13.4 Add variation
• 4.5.13.5 Hints
• 4.5.14 Save user book
• 4.5.15 New user book
• 4.5.16 Make user book from DB
• 4.5.17 Selected RBM from DB