Rebel Century FAQ |
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1. General1.1. IntroductionThe basic material for this FAQ are the most asked questions (and answers) of the Rebel users to the Rebel team and the Rebel related discussions at the RebelBoard, in the Computer-Chess Club and the rec.games.chess.computer newsgroup. To solve any questions/problems in using Rebel Century, proceed the following lookup strategy:
1.2. Schröder BVRebel Century 3.0 is a product of Schröder BV (headed by Ed Schröder) Schröder BV Software Development Postbus 6365 7401 JJ Deventer, The Netherlands Email: info@rebel.nl WWW: http://www.rebel.nl/and available since end of October 2000. 1.3. System Requirements
The following platforms are supported by Rebel Century:
There is no official OS/2 or MacOS support. Rebel Century may or may not run under Windows NT for unknown reasons. The maximum of supported RAM (max. hashtable size) is 400 Mb. 1.4. What is New in Rebel Century 3.2 ?Rebel Century 3.2 is mainly a maintenance release with bug fixes and some new features added:
1.5. Rebel Calling Parameters
The hash table limitations are added to avoid swap delays in a Windows Environment. The default setting is W2 (= 4 Mb). 1.6. Rebel Century 3.0 Internet Subscription
All customers of Rebel Century 3.0 (new or update) with internet access can register for the Rebel Century 3.0 subscription area. All members have access to free updates of Rebel Century 3.0, the REBELBASE, part of the Rebel 11.0 Cdrom and much more.
1.7. Rebel Add-OnsSchröder BV offers the following add-ons for Rebel Century:
Rebel Encyclopedia of Chess CD Encyclopedia of Chess (or simply EOC) is a SUPER chess tree with multiple functions. It will help you to make the right moves based on the statistics of Grandmasters and the chess history of 150 years. If you need help in a position just ask the EOC of 60,000,000 (spelled as sixty million!) unique positions and then make up your mind which move to play. EOC is an unique reference for opening preparation because all the major games of the last 150 years are in the EOC database.
Read the EOC description at the Schröder BV web area for further details.
Rebel Gold Have a look at the Schröder BV web area to find out more about this products. 1.8. Free PGN game materialYou can find a lot of game material in PGN format at the University of Pittburgh Chess Club's FTP server under the PGN directory. In the subdirectory Events you can find tournaments, sorted by year and event, and in the subdirectory Players you can find games of famous players, sorted by name. You can get a complete index of all available data (PGN, CA, CBF, ...) by downloading the file allindex.zip.
Last updated: Saturday, 21. July 2001 info@rebel.nl |