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- The NEW Rebel 8.0 briefly
- only the 25 new features above Rebel7 !!
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- GENERAL
- - Improved playing strength (30 ELO points)
- - Opening book of more than 850.000 moves (was 550.000)
- - 5000 grandmaster games included
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- NEW BOOK FUNCTIONS
- - Make user book from a database.
- - Select a database and a new user book will be created!
- - Edit user books.
- All you need is a mouse!
- Load userbook, Add, remove or mark book moves, Add complete games
- to a user book, Add parts of games to a user book, Save user book
- Edit the books you just made with Make user book!
- - Import external books. Import Chessmaster 4000, Genius or Fritz books
- to the REBEL format. Now all done with a few mouse clicks!
- - Joining REBEL books. Join books together! Make books as big as your
- computers memory! Join the books of VOL1 and VOL2 together till one
- big book! All done with a few mouse clicks!
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- NEW ANALYSE FUNCTIONS
- - Rebel 8.0 supports FOUR clipboards. These boards can be used to temporarily
- save a game or game fragment. This is very useful for the analysis of
- games using the analyse levels.
- You can easily switch from one game to another by clicking on the boards
- or use hotkeys. You can choose yourself if the boards are visible or not.
- - The Analyse level is greatly improved by adding a number of new features.
- The 11 new hot buttons, The 4 graphical clipboards and the SUPER warroom.
- - Power analyse.
- Speed up your analyse by 200-400%
- Add or remove your own moves to be analyzed!
- All done by a few mouse clicks.
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- NEW GRAPHICAL POSSIBILITIES
- - The new 11 hot buttons. 11 new hot buttons are available representing the
- most-used functions from the pulldown menus for optimal playing comfort.
- - The Game Overview. This function creates a graphical overview of any game.
- The game is divided into 15 small graphical boards including the move
- number, the move and the (computer) score. Using this option, you can see
- in a moment in which part of the game something has gone wrong, or in
- which part of the game was decided. For a fast analysis, just click on
- one of the 15 boards, and Rebel will automatically move to this point
- in the game.
- - Loading and saving colors.
- - Make your own favorite screen color settings.
- You can now load and save them
- - Move Input
- Enter your moves by cllicking or dragging
- Try both systems and judge for yourself which system is convenient for you!
- - Figurines or text.
- The moves are displayed as figurines or text.
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- THE NEW PLAYING LEVELS
- - The energy FUN levels
- Energy Increasing REBEL refuels energy every move, defeat Rebel as
- soon as possible!
- Energy Decreasing REBEL is losing energy every move, just hold on
- and you will win!
- Energy Random REBEL takes random energy, only for people with strong nerves!
- - The fixed time level.
- Limit REBEL's thinking time to an exact number of seconds.
- Very handy for certain computer tests. Very useful in combination
- with Analyse database.
- - The ELO level.
- Always losing on your program?
- Rebel 8.0 is the solution, simply type your ELO raing to the
- program and Rebel 8.0 will play on your strength!
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- REMAINING NEW OPTIONS
- - The Simultaneous mode
- Play simultaneous against 4 opponents!
- The 4 games are visible by the new 4 graphical boards.
- Scores of the mini match are visible
- - EPD support
- Game to EPD The current game is written to an EPD file.
- Export database ALL positions from the database are written
- to an EPD file.
- Import EPD The selected EPD file is completely imported into
- the database.
- Analyze EPD The selected EPD file is analysed, BOOKUP compatible.
- - Internet support
- Play chess on the Internet by email.
- Rebel makes email life easy and comfortable
- - The SUPER war room (above the Rebel7 warroom)
- The four best main variations are displayed up to a depth of 5 plies.
- - The move comment(s)
- You can decide now if you want to save the move comments or not in the functions
- Save game, Database to PGN etc. etc.
- - Flexible Resign option
- Chose yourself a suitable value
- Rebel will resign on that value
- - The new File menu
- The file menu is highly improved for all FILE functions
- You can now decide where to put the new file(s) on your hard disk.
- - Blindfold chess
- Practice and learn blindfold chess!
- There are several difficult options (from beginner to grandmaster)
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- Final remark
- Rebel 8.0 now has 50 new features above Rebel DECADE 1.2!
- Rebel 8.0 is over 200 ELO points stronger than Rebel DECADE 1.2!
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