Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 03:54:08 11/23/97
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>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, WHY ? >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. From my point of view Rebel is very easy to handle and has very intuitive handling. It has a big clear chess-board and normal pull-down menue's. Of course it is NOT almost written for the mass-market. Programs for the mass amrket like Power-chess or CM5000 have many strange features and strange colors and complicate stuff. Since CA2.0 has problems with 65.536 names in the players list and I am unable to IMPORT more data into my 650.000 games database, I more often use Rebel9 together with million-base. It works. And I had not to study any handbook for the database handling. > 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... Yes - WE do know better. But the people who BELIEVE in computer-chess magazins are misinformed heavily. In fact they get told: Fritz5 is the strongest chess program, or Genius5 is the strongest chess program, with no reason to say this, because it is not true. I don't like this lobbyism ! If they are not able to find out about the truth they should stop writing or let more objective guys write. If they want to lie, they should mark it with a sign ! "Attention: here comes a lie !" >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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