Author: Robert Pawlak
Date: 14:17:42 05/26/99
There's been an awful lot of teeth knashing concerning the new Rebel-CP. While there is some justification for this, consider that there may be some very good reasons for Ed's decision to go this route. Has it occured to anyone that Ed may still be developing his own windows GUI for Rebel? Possibly (and this is only conjecture at this point), this development may be occuring in parallel with that of rebel-CP. Perhaps the schedule slipped on the rebel-developed version, and Ed was forced to take measures to placate the people that were told there would be a windows version of Rebel this summer. In any case, this would be an honorable decision on his part. His customers get an improved engine and windows interface, at the time that it was promised. Ed gets to pay everyone's salary and continue development of a standalone Rebel for windows. The CP interface is not all that bad. It does not stack up to Fritz, but few programs do. It still has most of the features that people need, including support for variations, and opening book tools. Asking for Rebel to produce a CB compatible engine will not make it happen. Ed has stated many times in the past (in no uncertain terms) that this would not be an option. Furthermore, the CP interface will at least have a decent 2-D board, which took Chessmaster YEARS to develop. The lack of 3D and other unecessary features should not really be an issue. Rebel's strong point has always been it's playing style, and this should be unobscured by the UI. Really, I think people are going a bit overboard on this. Bob P.
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