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Subject: Re: Question to Ed

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 02:40:30 12/07/01

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On December 07, 2001 at 04:57:12, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>I am wondering why there is no Rebel Century 4 to run under
>the ChessPartner interface, like Gandalf and Tiger do.
>
>I recall Century 2 to be available as an engine for it
>(or something like that), so that seems to indicate it's
>possible to port it to Windows, and has been done...
>
>--
>GCP

Yes that is true, but the problem is my available time to work on Rebel. I
will elaborate a bit.

The last 3 years the structure of my company has changed considerable, the
cooperation with Christophe, Lex Loep and now with Steen Suurballe of Gandalf
comes to mind. Also realize the growing importance of Internet needs more
and more attention. All of this extra has put me into a new position, that is
that today I function much more as a manager than as a chess programmer.

So when there is time left to program I rather prefer to spend this time to
improve the strength of Rebel than to work on interface issues. If you look
at my latest brainchild, it was the work of just 6-7 weeks in total because
I did not had more time.

Naturally the DOS issue backfires on me, I knew that from the beginning and
you won't hear me complain, it is just a result of my new role and the
impossibility to invest 2-3 months full-time to port Rebel to a new inferface.

The good news is that Lex Loep is going to do the porting job for me. He is
the author of the Chesspartner interface so if he is able to deal with my
sources Rebel Century 4 for Windows will be available somewhere in the coming
year. I keep my fingers crossed.

Ed



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