Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 06:58:13 04/25/99
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Right! - One of the best reasons to buy Rebel10 (11, 12, or whatever Ed will call the windows version), is what you say below; His excellent promotion of the program with great downloads, and these beautiful special events that he is making for his program. It is our way as consumer's of supporting not only Ed Schroder's products, but even the Grandmaster's (at least a little), too:) mrlsug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On April 25, 1999 at 05:17:25, Paulo Soares wrote: >On April 24, 1999 at 23:19:35, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: > >>I brought this Rebel challenge up to my friend, GM M.R. (Has played in many >>human versus computer events, so it is easy to figure out who it is). >> >>I quote him as best I remember; "I'll email them about accepting this challenge, >>but there must be 30 other GM's who are already vieing to play the thing" I >>told him that I thought he had a good chance of being one of the early >>challenger's, as I figured that a lot of the other GM's around would be busy at >>weekend tournament's or were not all that Internet suavy. Of course I figured >>this would be a good experiment to see how quick these guys go after this >>challenge. >> >>I reviewed the conditions of the challenge to him as I was not sure he would be >>interested. M.R. is an atorney and doesn't necessarily need the money, but for >>most of his chess services he gets paid up front, so this would be something of >>a gamble, and I was not sure he would be interested in a 1 game match over the >>Internet, where if he loses, he gets nothing. M.R. "I doubt that I'll get one >>of the early slots, but if I do wind up playing, and I lose to the thing, it >>will give me some useful publicity". >> >>So my conclusion (true based on just 1 GM), is that this will attract a lot of >>GM competition to play the program, and that they are not too concerned or >>worried about losing the one game. Of course they would rather win or draw for >>the money, but since the Rebel versus Anand match, accept that anything can >>happen against this program. I'm sure that most G.M.'s will be glad for another >>injection of money from a computer software company, even though it is not that >>much (from their perspective), or that often. > > >Lawrence, > >I was very satisfied when I read his post. >I am impressed as Ed Schroder know to sell his program. In my >opinion, the Rebel site is, without comparison, the best of all the >sites of chess programs, always promoting new events, supplying >databases for users, and much others things. Another advantage >of Rebel, you purchase an excellent program and still takes >Tiger (Hello Christophe Theron!), another excellent program, >without paying. And if that were not enough, the man are making >what I believe that we, loving of computerchess, more want, >human x machines!!! >The minimum that I can make, is to buy Rebel10!!(yes, with 2 "!") >The third I will place to "Rebel+tiger+win+winboard engines" >and when Rebel come back to play in SSDF. > >Regards, > >Paulo Soares, from Brazil.
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