Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 09:53:03 05/17/01
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Mr. Lopes, I suspect that the price of that software will be about $150.00 if you take inflation and labor into consideration. I don't think that it is "humanly" possible to have a fully commentated four billion move opening book by just one chess master. In any case, that feature would probably raise the cost to $1500.00 or more. Ten piece EGTBs might be partially implemented but not fully. As for the infrared com port, I don't see that as high tech at all. I have that on my 15 year old HP 28C pocket calculator. The 3D chess board would be the holographic type. That will probably be feasible. I can foresee a chess program like Hal of 2001 fame that talks with you and asks you how you feel and what is the price of rice in China. It will laugh at you if you lose and will then console you with insincere words. Don't expect the price of chess programs to keep going down. You get what you pay for. Tim Frohlick On May 17, 2001 at 12:31:15, william penn wrote: >On May 17, 2001 at 12:19:11, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: > >>May 17, 2010. >> >>***** NEW REBEL SOFTWARE ! ****** >> >>The good news: >> >>The long-awaited new Rebel software ships today. Rebel 20 comes with many nice >>features, the best of them is a nice 3D board. All 10-9-8-7-6-5-4 pieces Nalimov >>tablebases available. CAP and CAT data in 2 full FMD disks. There are 50 >>different personalities to play. Opening book with 4 billion moves, all of them >>commented by Human World Champion A. Shirov, will fit in only 300 GB of >>hard-disk space. A marvelous program! >> >>In this new version there's support for infrared-port comp-comp matches. No >>cables! >> >>The bad news: it STILL runs only in DOS. You'll have to buy a DOS boot disquette >>from AMD/Sun Microsystems (go to >>http://www.amd_sun.com/legacysoftware/rarity/index.html), shut-down your Linux >>OS and restart your computer in DOS mode; of course that limits the hash tables >>you can use, but since there's no human that can beat a comp who cares about >>that? >> >>Our tests against current WCC Champion Shredder 15, and the strong "Black-hole" >>Fritz (nothing can scape from its analysis!) show: >> >>Rebel 20 x Shredder 15: 7-12, 120 draws >>Rebel 20 x BH Fritz : 3-16, 105 draws (match is still running) >> >>Ratings so far: >> >>Shredder 15: 3110 >>BH Fritz: 3222 >>Rebel 20: 3057 >> >>You can buy a copy of Rebel 20 at http://www.rebel.nl. Price: US$15.00 + >>shipping. >>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>A. Ponti > > > I don't think your very far from the truth here, I expect rebel to be that >strong in that year
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