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Subject: Rebel10 no longer auto232 compatible! Good ! The best ed could do !

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 12:03:12 09/10/98

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On September 09, 1998 at 16:46:15, Moritz Berger wrote:

>... I bet all the upcoming reviews will complain about this: "We would have
>liked to tell our readers about playing strength improvements, but we can't.
>Why? Because Ed Schröder wants us to do spend 300 hours (time required for about

pah. a tester who needs autoplayer games for giving playing strength judgements
is a bad tester...

>40 tournament games) of manual testing and we simply cannot do this. In our
>opinion, this shows a disrespect of our work as independent journalists because
>Ed Schröder wants us to rely solely on his own assesment about the expected
>gains.". How about this?

Pah ! This is nonsense. In the dedicated time nobody had autoplayers. And nobody
had the feeling that there is a disrespect. You are dreaming...

>But Rebel is clearly *less* without auto232. Even MUCH less, to me.

And ? Thank Matthias. He is in charge.
Do you have forgotten this ? Seems so.

>I do not think that your demand to remove *all* Rebel games from the SSDF list
>is justified. In fact, I believe it's very much unfair. Reasons:

It is not a question of fairness. I don't see how you can decide about fairness
:-))

it is a question of copyrights and licencing products for usage.

>Hey, come on Ed, you really have nothing to hide ... Rebel's playing strength is
>beyond any doubt for me, don't spoil the fun by disabling the transmission of
>Rebel's mating moves via auto232 ...
>
>Moritz

Hey ChessBase, come on, you have nothing to hide... :-)))

Or ?



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