Author: Moritz Berger
Date: 13:38:06 10/30/98
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On October 29, 1998 at 18:43:19, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On October 29, 1998 at 18:08:49, James T. Walker wrote: >>I would buy it again at the same price because >>there is more to a program than rating points. Rebel 10 has a lot more! > >Including the rating points, by any standard of measurement. > >Enrique >>Jim Walker Everything I wrote about Rebel in my review on http://207.86.247.69/wccr/software/Rebel9/mb.html is still true. Please note that Ed has incorporated many featured I missed in Rebel 9 in his latest release and also take a look at the numerous other improvements - small and big - he introduced with Rebel 10. Consider also the HUGE amount of chess material, utilities etc. on the R10 CD and give him credit for love, passion, care and money that he and his team put into making R10 (and the Anand match, BTW) a reality for their customers. Don't forget that Ed gives technical support for his products for free here on CCC and via email, that he shares his ideas and even offered his EOC builder utility (which he felt was not good enough for a public release by his standards) to any interested parties. Now Ed made a decision to cut prices by 50%. Who will suffer most? Of course Ed himself if he doesn't sell at least twice as many copies of Rebel, which I certainly hope he will be able to do. You simply cannot discount the fact that Ed offers Decade 2.0 for free and will also give you a free upgrade to the preliminary Windows version when it's ready. Don't put up a big show here that you didn't get enough value. I simply don't know any other chess program that will give you as many additional goodies (DBUTIL 2.5 etc.) as Rebel does, no matter if at $60 or $120. Still, I hope Ed will find a way to give back something else than Rebel 1 to his most loyal customers who bought Rebel at full price. But even if he doesn't offer you more than what you already have - it makes no sense to get 0% of the fun at 100% of the price just because you're that much angry at having payed the same amount of money for Rebel like you probably did for Genius, Shredder, Nimzo, Hiarcs, M-Chess, Fritz, ... If you want to recover your loss, why not play twice as often as you would have normaly done against Rebel, thus getting 200% value our of your purchase - hey, no ill will intended, I'm not mocking you, but don't spoil yourself the fun of owning one of the most enjoyable chess programs. Famous last words ... I hope that I will be able to finish my R10 review within the next days, there I will also mention some things I don't like about R10, but with the new price tag I will probably elevate it from "BUY" to "STRONG BUY" (read: must have). Moritz
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