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REBEL 11.0 reviews
  • Rebel-Tiger II at the Marshall Chess Club (English)
    Larry S. Tamarkin, USCF Life master and a long time member of the famous Marshall Chess Club in New York reports.


  • Review by Jeff Lischer (English)
    Jeff has been a loyal Rebel fan since Rebel 8, but this is his first year as a beta tester. He enjoyed the Century personality contest very much and developed the tactical personality which finished in second place. Jeff is a mechanical engineer and has always enjoyed computers and computer programming. One day he would like to try his hand at writing a simple chess program, but for now he is satisfied with tinkering with other people's programs. Jeff knows that once he starts programming one by himself he would be on a very slippery slope!


  • Review by Ernst Walet (Dutch)
    Ernst is a veteran REBEL-BETA tester all the way back to REBEL 9.0. One of his passions is to play on Internet Chess Servers as you read in his review.


  • Review by Harald Faber (German)
    Harald Faber, born 1968, works in the IT and is electrical engineer with diploma. He knows chess programs since the early 90's, beginning with Fritz 2 and Genius 2. Since then he has close contact to the computer chess community and is a well known computer chess enthusiast with lots of experience. He owns almost all computer chess programs. He got used to most of them so he has a good survey of what other programs contain or miss. The famous Chessmaster 5555 settings were tested and published by him; as a matter of chance, almost at the same time another German, Kai Luebke, had the same idea with these settings, so none of them obviously has the right to say the settings are "his".


  • Review by Jeff LaHue (English)
    Jeff is a veteran REBEL tester dating back to REBEL 8. His contributions have included assistance with documentation and the creation of the "50 Examples" file for REBEL 9.


  • Review by Bob Riley (English)
    Bob, a former mechanical engineer, is now a social worker in mental health and a substitute teacher. His sole claim to fame in chess is that when he and Bobby Fischer were both 14 ½, he watched Bobby play in a tournament in Milwaukee. Bob, never more than a casual chess player, rekindled his interest in chess when he bought Socrates in 1997, followed quickly by Rebel 8. Over the next 2 ½ years, he purchased Chessica, Fritz 5.16 and Rebel Century 1.


  • Review by Sune Larsson (English)
    Sune Larsson is a game analyst and former tournament player (previous ELO about 2300). Now working as a social psychologist in Sweden, he has devoted a lot of time for computerchess in the last two years. Main interests in this area are playing strength, playing styles and databasing.


  • Review by by Sarah Bird (English)
    Sarah is from Ontario, Canada and is new to the REBEL-BETA team. She maintains a website of computer chess games.


  • Review by Joe Petrolito (English)
    Joe since Rebel 8.0 is a respected member of the REBEL BETA test team.


  • Review by Jim Walker (English)
    Jim is new to the REBEL-BETA team. His favorite hobby: playing hundreds of automatic chess games between computer chess programs.


  • Review by IM Mark Diesen (English)
    Mark Diesen gained its International Master title in 1977. A few years later Mark scored 2 GM norms. Nowadays he still has a positive score against many grand masters. Mark currently is running FICS as an Admin.


  • Review by Tim Frohlick (English)
    Tim is am man of the first hour. He fell in love with computer chess in 1980 when one of the very first dedicated chess computers (Boris the Talking Chess Computer) became available to a wide public. Being a biomedical science officer in the United States Air Force he later fell in love with the Genius 2.0 program by Richard Lang back in 1993. Now in the year 2000 you can read his view on Rebel 11.0


  • Review by Keith Kitson (English)
    Keith being a full-time main stream computer systems developer, with a strong interest in computer chess since the pioneering days of the Sensory 8, Morphy Encore, VCC and Mephisto II, Super Constellation prior to the onslaught of the Chess software to run on the IBM PC, and now the proud owner of virually all versions of the top chess software available on the market place, he felt particularly qualified to join the Beta test team.  Keith also play correspondence chess competitively with a modicum of success.


  • Review by Chris Taylor (English)
    Chris (aged 44) one of his time consuming hobbies is tinkering with computers, either building or upgrading. He has three computers and also enjoys autoplaying different programs against each other. Besides computers and computer chess Chris loves music especially making music with the guitar. Chris also teaches others to play the guitar and read music. 


  • Review by Peter Skinner (English)
    Peter Skinner is new to the REBEL BETA-TEAM. Being a WWW/PC tech, living in Edmonton Albert Canada Peter first fell in love with computer chess after using Genius 3, and Chess Master 2 and has never lost interest. Peter has been beta testing software for about 5 years now and his first chess program tested was Comet, a freeware product by Ulrich Tuerke and he continued to test chess software on the commercial level. Peter currently is trying to get the IPCCC hosted in North America for the year 2001 or 2002.


  • Review by Howard Exner (English)
    Howard Exner (rated 2150 CFC) last year was one of the winners of the Personality contest in which he showed his remarkable knowledge of chess programs in general and Rebel in particular. Howard is a man of the first hour since the early 1980's. Starting with the early Fidelity product line and then switching to PC software. Howard is an avid reader of any chess computer literature, CCR reports, online CCC and Komputer Korner from Canada's chess magazine. Key contributor to the CCC ECM98 suite project, along with Amir Ban, who's persistence kept the project alive.


  • Review by Roy Brunjes (English)
    Roy Brunjes is a well respected member of the REBEL BETA-team and also has developed the Karpov style (personality) as found in Rebel Century 3.0




REBEL CENTURY reviews
  • Review by Claudio Bollini (English)
    Claudio Bollini has been a well known writer for "Computer Chess Reports". Claudio has written his own chess program called Genesis and therefore his reviews of Chess Software have an extra demension.


  • Review by Roy Brunjes (English)
    Roy Brunjes is new to the REBEL BETA-team and also developed the Karpov style for REBEL CENTURY.


  • Review by Joe Petrolito (English)
    Joe since Rebel 8.0 is a respected member of the REBEL BETA test team.


  • Review Rebel Century 1.2 by Detlef Pordzik for Rochade Europa (German)
    Detlef is a man of the very first hour in computer chess and is a well known chess journalist in Germany. Detlef currently writes for Rochade Europa a monthly german-language illustrated chess magazine (app. 100 pages)




REBEL TIGER reviews
  • Review by Detlef Pordzik for Rochade Europa (German)
    Detlef is a man of the very first hour in computer chess and is a well known chess journalist in Germany. Detlef currently writes for Rochade Europa a monthly german-language illustrated chess magazine (app. 100 pages)




REBEL10 reviews
  • Review by Moritz Berger (English)
    Moritz since Rebel 9.0 is a respected member of the REBEL BETA test team. His knowledge about chess programs is truely amazing and his reviews (including the ones he writes about other chess software) are always a pleasure to read. Just check his latest master piece totally written in HTML (the Internet program language) by himself.


  • Review by Claudio Bollini (English)
    Claudio Bollini has been a well known writer for "Computer Chess Reports". Claudio has written his own chess program called Genesis and therefore his reviews of Chess Software have an extra demension.


  • Review by Stephen Pribut (English)
    Steve is one of the pioneers of chess pages on the Internet. Steve Pribut's Chess Page is dedicated to many subjects like FAQ, PCA ratings, FIDE ratings, ECO, many links to chess sites including software, products and news.


  • Review by Joe Petrolito (English)
    Joe since Rebel 8.0 is a respected member of the REBEL BETA test team.


  • Review by Peter Schreiner (German)
    Peter Schreiner is a well known chess journalist in Germany. Peter currently writes for Rochade Europa a monthly german-language illustrated chess magazine (app. 100 pages)


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Interviews
  • Interview with Ed Schröder for ChessBits no.8 by Marcus Kästner.   
    Marcus Kästner is the founder of the German computer chess magazine "ChessBits" a bi-monthly illustrated magazine enriched with a cdrom each 2 months. His pages although in German only are very detailed for those who want to know everything of nowadays top chess programs. Marcus is notorious by developers for asking hard questions that go right into the heart of the art of chess programming and corresponding playing strength. The ChessBits pages although in the german language are recommended and may enrich your understanding of computer chess in general.


  • Interview with Ed Schröder author of REBEL and founder of REBEL company taken by Detlef Pordzik for Rochade Europa.
    Detlef is a man of the very first hour in computer chess and is a well known chess journalist in Germany. Detlef currently writes for Rochade Europa a monthly german-language illustrated chess magazine (app. 100 pages)


  • Interview by Arvind Aaron with author of REBEL10 Ed Schröder on Ischia after the match Anand vs Rebel. The interview was published first in the sports weekly The Sportstar (India's largest sports weekly news paper) and the chess magazine Chess Mate.


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