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Subject: Not much about the Rebel Game

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 00:25:48 08/15/99


After seeing two draws and a loss for Rebel, my second favorite program after
CM6K is sadly becoming sorry to look at. I do not think that this is a good
sales pitch for Rebel. Its fine getting the publicity in playing these games,
but if you cannot get a win then things start to get old real fast.

The first two games drew some comment in CCC. But I have seen very little with
this third game. I think that if after 5 games Rebel has not won and it is still
being played on the same hardware, either change the plan or dump it. Rebel can
not become a program that tries to compete against strong humans and does not
win.

I know more games needed to be played with humans against computers and this is
great. But my current view of Rebel and the upcoming Rebel windows realease is
that the partnership with chesspartner interface is a step down and I think the
current non winning Rebel on powerful hardware is not doing it any service.

Lets hope rebel can turn this down period around and get back on track. I am
many others like winners. Appearence is everything. And Rebel is not appearing
well at the moment. Lets hope this changes in Rebels favour soon.



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