Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 06:55:18 11/23/97
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On November 23, 1997 at 06:54:08, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>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 !" Thorsten: are you talking in general or about a specific magazine? Without this information, it's difficult to answer to your statements. Enrique >>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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