Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:47:04 11/22/97
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On November 22, 1997 at 14:59:06, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On a server of a computerchess seller I have read something about: >don't buy this program. It is not useful for beginners/learners. > >My question is now to those who have Rebel9, do you think that the >database functions are inadequate ? > >Please don't name the distributor . I want to discuss about the topic: >Is Rebel9 in the database functions really so needless ? > >From my point of viewe the database functions are great. >I have million-base in ONE big rebel-database and copied it onto my >harddisc. >Rebel allows it to search for line, position, material and and and and >it works pretty well. A strong chess-engine allows me to analyse the >games. I don't know why this looks unprofessional or not easy to handle >for beginners. > >Please you opinion. > >From my point of view all these reviews have one thing in common: >often a program is written worser than it is to make the fame of another >program higher. Of course the distributor sells THESE programs with more > cash-flow. As I wrote in an article in CCR, Rebel 9 seems to be efectively a program more fitted to pros or very serious chess fans than one fitted for just relatively serious or less than that players, but of course that is a far cry to recomend NOT to buy it; on the contrary, I said to that non serious player "buy it" precisely because Rebel 9 is a kind of incentive to become a real chess fan. Now, I understand thatn people commercially engaged with this are more tempted than us to go further, but that does not angry me. Chances are the guy that goes to that site come also to this or to any of the many sites where chess programas are more or less discussed and so any one has many chances to develop his own, relatively well informed opinion. Let them, the lyers or desperate people trying to sell doo what they want; we know better... So there could be a connection between making A down and prefare selling >B. > >How do you handle as a customer or hobbyist these affairs ? >Does this make you angry ? >It makes me angry because I am often in friendship with the programmers.
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