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Subject: Re: If I study ten games a day it will take 216 years to finish.

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 16:22:35 11/11/00

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On November 11, 2000 at 03:26:14, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>Dear CCC,
>
>I didn't realize just how big the Rebel Century 3.0 database of the best games
>of the last 150 years was.  800,026 games is a lot of games.  This data is
>certainly not the biggest possible but I would challenge any of you to study 100
>games each and every day for almost 22 years.
>
>I kept scrolling and scrolling and scrolling just on the letter "F" and found
>that a guy by the name of Frohlich played five games in the past.  Now if
>Fink,Finkelstein,Fricke and Fine are as talented I will be impressed.
>
>If it took over 6000 man hours to compile all these games then the price of less
>than sixty dollars US for Rebel 11 is less than one cent per hour.  This does
>not include the thousands of hours that Ed Schroeder and Christophe Theron and
>Lex Loep and Jeroen Noomen etc. have put into the programs and interface of both
>Rebel Century 3.0 and Rebel Tiger/Gambit Tiger.
>
>You can not go wrong if you buy Rebel 11.  On the other hand, you may suffer
>from information overload.
>
>Tim Frohlick

As you say, "you may never need another program"! heeheehee!
S.Taylor



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