History

Schröder BV is a Dutch chess software developing company entirely devoted to chess since 1985. More...

Quality

• New ! Chess Tiger 2004 by Christophe Théron is the long awaited successor of Chess Tiger 15. This version is nearly twice as fast as the previous version. In addition to the increase in speed more chess knowledge has been added, most notably endgame knowledge. If you think ChessPartner is not strong enough, this is the package for you. With this package you will have an opponent which is very hard to beat. Click here for more information and on-line ordering.
   
• Rebel 12 (Windows XP version)
  The long awaited windows version of Rebel More info...   
  
• New ! GANDALF 6
  After several years of silence around Gandalf, the author has finally released a new version. With this version Gandalf 6 made a giant leap in strength which brings it back to the top of the field. The engine is especially improved in the positional play with the help of correspondence-grandmaster Christian Kongsted; further improvements are made in all aspects of game play. Comes with a large optimized opening book containing more than 2 million unique positions. The latest ChessPartner 5.3b interface is also included. More....
  
  
• REBEL ECTOOL, the best program to play chess by email with your chess friends, correspondence chess, Internet tournaments. Rebel Ectool comes with a strong Rebel analysis engine that will analyze your (ongoing) games. More...
  
  REBEL DECADE 3.0, our promotional program (elo 2300-2500) which we offer people for free. Rebel Decade 3.0 is the full functional Rebel 10 chess program (from 1998) in disguise. Rebel Decade 3.0 only limitation is that it will play 200 elo points less stronger except on each friday when it will play at full strength. More...

Hall of Fame

In 1997 REBEL was challenged to play a match against GM Arthur Yusupov a top-10 chess player at the time. REBEL won the match with 10½-6½. GM Arthur Yusupov about his computer opponent: In all 17 games Rebel played sensible moves. I never saw Rebel playing one senseless move as I have seen Deep Blue playing some in the recent match against Kasparov. More...

The next year on the island Ischia in Italy Rebel had to face world's second best player Vishy Anand in a 8 game match. Rebel surprised the whole chess world winning the match with 5-3 partly due to a new invented software algorithm called "anti-GM". More...

January 2001, a new challenge for Rebel. In a 6 game match Rebel beats GM John van der Wiel with 3½-2½. The match was very special as before the match GM John van der Wiel NEVER had lost a serious game against a computer. More...

HOT pages

• REBEL-FORUM, discussion board for computer chess and Rebel related user questions. Join...
  
  
• CHESS TIGER 15 results....

• REBEL 11.0 playing strength, results of the current version mainly against other computers. More...
  
  
• REBEL SUBSCRIBE an unique service to get access to a special place on the Rebel Home Page where you can download the latest grandmaster games of recent tournaments, opening books, utilities, special databases, new released versions and so on. More...
  
  
• REVIEW SECTION, excellent written reviews by various people about Rebel products. More...
  
  
• REBEL Price List, overview of available Rebel products, prices and order information. More...