Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 02:08:12 08/15/99
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On August 15, 1999 at 03:25:48, Micheal Cummings wrote: >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. In the last two games, against Sorin and Rohde, didn't happen polemic moves, for this reason they were not commented in CCC. The one that many of us didn't believe is happening, the commercial top programs, in normal hardware, doesn't still have the strong of the GMs for control time 40/2. Robert Yatt already affirms this there are some time, I didn't believe. The possible problem is that only Rebel is playing these matches, and I don't know what extent this can harm the sales. For me, the fact of Ed to be promoting these matches, it's more a reason to continue buying the new versions of Rebel. I would like a lot that the other top programs was also playing matches 40/2. Paulo Soares, from Brazil
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