Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 09:16:16 10/11/99
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I haven't had the problem where Rebel ever 'crashed' my machine. But many have had Rebel decide to simply exit in a session when playing it from Windows. Starting Rebel using one of the available Pif. files that come with it usually solves that problem. I think that's one of the reasons most people are looking foward to the Windows version of Rebel, because as much as we hate windows, most of us are using it, and putting up with its occassional freezes, so we might as well have windows freeze rather than the chess program. (I mean we wish windows wouldn't freeze, but were stuck with it). As far as Rebel Century and its database is concerned, I can tell you from my previous experience with Rebel products, that you will be getting a great value. The game will be very well organized, and have a good balance of historic and current material. In adition to that, when you buy a database from companies like Chess Base and Rebel (& Rebel Century is partly a database program), the database on the CD comes in a viriety of formats, including pgn. and they are carefully sorted with those irratating doubles removed. I also bought Rebel Milliion in the past. It definately had a lot of historic games that chess base databases didn't come with, but was sorted into the 500 seperate ECO codes, which wasn't as convenient as having the games arranged chronlogically. I think Rebel was going to do that on future (current), versions, partly as a result of my inquiries on that matter. Also typical of a Rebel realease, are seperate databases of test positions, annotated games from the many Rebel versus Human tournament & matches, databases of past computer tournaments, and historic period games of particularly strong player's. As if that wasn't enough, each new realise comes with a default Rebel opening book, and other specialist opening books based on the repetoir of famous players. If its not on the CD itself, then its freely available from the Rebel home page as part of our buying the program. If anything, buying a Rebel product is putting you into a relationship with the product & companie in such a way that, if you are connected to the Internet, you better have a big hard disk (I'd say at least 6 gigabytes) for all of the stuff you get:) Larry - the chess software addict! On October 11, 1999 at 08:49:29, Tony Schleizer wrote: > >Any comments on this? I was thinking about buying it, but the >last Rebel product I purchased (Rebel Lite) crashed my >machine when I accessed the database and then tried to play >a game. > >Also, I'm interested in any info on the database. It says it >has 510K high quality games. What exactly does that mean? Are only >games by IM's and GM's included. Also, are there many older games >in the database? By older, I mean does it have games by Morphy, >Anderssen, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, etc. > >Thanks. > >Tony
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