Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:24:17 05/27/99
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On May 26, 1999 at 20:24:00, Christophe Theron wrote: >On May 26, 1999 at 17:17:42, Robert Pawlak wrote: > >>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. > > >It has already been said that Fernando was totally wrong on this issue. CP HAS a >3D screen. Christphe: First: my oblivions about this 3-d thing does not means I am totally wrong respect to my judgement about 2d screen. I do not see the logical conncetion if you don not mind. In fact, how you can be "totally wrong" in a matter of tastes? I do not like CO Gui and you think is OK: so I am mistaken? Second: the version of CP I have seen is the very same you have seen. Third: 3·D screen is even worst that 2-d that, at least, as you say, is like a diagram. But you must remember not all people here thinks that appearance nothing matter provided you can play the game. Appearance is a lot molre than just how the board is represented. Fourth: I understand your position: you are now a partner of ED, you feel compelled to defend. For what? Nobody is attacking one Ed product, on the contrary, we are trying that "that" window Rebel nnever will be a product. Rebel- and tiger- should get the gui they deserves fernando > >About the style of the pieces on the 2D board, I really understand nothing to >all the critisism. The pieces look very much like real chess diagrams, and much >like what you find in Fritz, Genius or Rebel, so what's the problem??? > >Maybe Fernando has tested a version from 5 years ago... > > > Christophe > > >>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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