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Subject: Re: Hoping to have Simuls against Rebel in Maracaibo

Author: Rafael Vasquez

Date: 12:36:02 05/14/03

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On May 14, 2003 at 13:22:32, Ed Schröder wrote:

Thanks for your reply Ed.
Maybe I'm naive but, will a compare of the working code with the non-working
one show a difference?. Possibly the compare can be done automatically.

Rafael

>On May 14, 2003 at 13:05:19, Rafael Vasquez wrote:
>
>>
>>Ed ,
>>
>>When Rebel10 came out and I noticed that the simul option was
>>broken I Inmediatly reported it to Ed.
>>My friends and I enjoyed playing simuls against Rebel so much...
>>Is not usual that GM's come to Maracaibo, Venezuela (Last one was
>>IGM Alonso Zapata in 1999)
>>I posted several times in CCC trying to get fix this option and finally
>>gave up when realized that there was no interest on fixing it.
>>
>>Thanks to Ed we still have a chance to have a SUPER STRONG Chess Program here.
>>We cannot buy Chess Programs as before.
>>
>>When I saw Ed's post on how much he liked the DOS GUI the Fantasy of
>>having REBEL12 doing simuls for us revived.
>>
>>I'm just trying to make you understand how Great and Important is for us
>>that option, which caused so much joy to us here in Maracaibo.
>>
>>Now and then we still do simuls against REBEL9, but my friends always
>>wonder and ask when and if will it be possible to make a simul against
>>REBEL 12.
>
>
>Rafael,
>
>Thanks so much for kind words about Rebel's simul mode. It's true somewhere in
>time this option got screwed. I had several looks at the code but I am clueless
>what is wrong. Mind you, the code isn't mine, the code is from a programmer who
>left the company a couple of years ago. That's why I think the option is lost
>forever.
>
>Sorry for the bad news.
>
>Ed



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