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With the release of REBEL 9.0 (October 14, 1997) the following SUPER Cdrom will be available (for free!) for people who upgrade from Rebel7/8 to Rebel9 or buy Rebel9.

This special REBEL BONUS cdrom, full of DATA and UTILITIES will be included for free if you order Rebel 9.0

We have extended our offer because we like to celebrate the fact Rebel (with version 9.0) again gained the first place on the Swedish Computer Rating List. On the SSDF list of January / February 1998 Rebel 9.0 is on TOP on both categories!





REBEL BONUS contains the following data:


1. Rebel Decade

Full functional Rebel 6.0 chess program. The chess engine has been lowered with 150 elo points till an average elo of 2300 on a fast Pc. With Rebel Decade (and all the utilities) you can access all data of this Cdrom.

2. Databases



2.1 The TOP 107,000 TOP database

  • Basically the 107,000 game database contains:
  • All tournaments Category XIV and over, complete tournaments.
  • All games played by players of ELO 2450 and higher.
  • All USSR championships, complete.
  • All Interzonals, candidates and WCH matches, all complete.
  • Most strong tournaments of classical times (1800-1970).

    Total games 107,348 no doubles
    1 - 0 32,802 31%
    ½ - ½ 52,978 49%
    0 - 1 21,546 20%


      Rated games ELO average ELO performance
    White 77,823 2543 2579
    Black 77,829 2543 2500



    2.2 The EARLY games collection

    If you love to replay the very early chess games you will find many of them in the 3 special early chess game databases.

    Years Games
    Till 1900 2,416
    1900-1929 3,149
    1930-1970 23,767


    2.3 The PLAYER collection

    Game collections of all famous chess players separated in different databases. A short example:

    Player Database Name Games
    Kasparov,G KASPAROV.DAT 932
    Karpov,An KARPOV.DAT 1610
    Alekhine,A ALEKHINE.DAT 626
    Geller,E GELLER.DAT 1241
    Lasker,Em LASKER.DAT 405
    Korchnoi,V KORCHNOI.DAT 2103

    In total 47 player collections!


    2.4 History's TOP chess games

    Game collection of 1238 famous chess games between the all time world top players. The Rebel database complete overview looks as follows

    Player Games Score WonDraw Lost Perc
    Alekhine,A 60 31.0 - 29.0 19 24 17 51%
    Anand,V 81 39.5 - 41.5 24 31 26 48%
    Anderssen,A 79 31.5 - 47.5 29 5 45 39%
    Botvinnik,M 176 91.0 - 85.0 51 80 45 51%
    Bronstein,D 83 36.0 - 47.0 17 38 28 43%
    Capablanca,J 62 35.5 - 26.5 20 31 11 57%
    Chigorin,M 88 41.0 - 47.0 34 14 40 46%
    De la Bourdonnais,L 21 13.0 - 8.0 12 2 7 61%
    Fischer,R 71 37.0 - 34.0 22 30 19 52%
    Harrwitz,D 4 2.0 - 2.0 2 0 2 50%
    Ivanchuk,V 89 38.0 - 51.0 20 36 33 42%
    Karpov,An 245 123.0 - 122.0 53 140 52 50%
    Kasparov,G 182 102.5 - 79.5 58 89 35 56%
    Keres,P 98 49.0 - 49.0 29 40 29 50%
    Korchnoi,V 149 69.5 - 79.5 31 77 41 46%
    Kramnik,V 72 37.0 - 35.0 23 28 21 51%
    Lasker,Em 102 61.0 - 41.0 47 28 27 59%
    McDonnell,A 21 8.0 - 13.0 7 2 12 38%
    Morphy,P 21 16.0 - 5.0 15 2 4 76%
    Neumann,G 27 15.5 - 11.5 14 3 10 57%
    Nimzowitsch,A 26 7.5 - 18.5 4 7 15 28%
    Petrosian,T 109 57.0 - 52.0 27 60 22 52%
    Pillsbury,H 45 22.5 - 22.5 17 11 17 50%
    Smyslov,V 133 66.5 - 66.5 38 57 38 50%
    Spassky,B 145 75.5 - 69.5 40 71 34 52%
    Staunton,H 4 0.0 - 4.0 0 0 4 0%
    Stein,L 31 18.0 - 13.0 9 18 4 58%
    Steinitz,W 118 54.0 - 64.0 44 20 54 45%
    Tal,M 108 48.0 - 60.0 26 44 38 44%
    Zukertort,J 26 12.0 - 14.0 12 0 14 46%



    2.5 The IMMORTAL games

    Game collection of 25 evergreens, the best games ever played in chess history. At least according to the personal choice of the Schröder BV.


    2.6 The MINIATURE collection

    Game collection of 635 miniature games < 20 moves. See how all world's famous chess players had their bad days.


    3. Opening Books




    3.1 Book Tutor to learn Openings

    Database containing all used opening names by Rebel in 3 languages (English, German and Dutch) including the opening moves. Simply load the specific opening and replay (practice) the loaded opening line.


    3.2 View, study and practice 2500 ECO codes!

    Database containing all 500 ECO codes (A00-E99) including multiple ECO definitions, in total 2500 opening names! A short example of the A04 and A05 ECO codes:

    ECO NAME MOVES
    A04 Reti opening 1.Nf3
    A04 Reti-Dutch 1.Nf3 f5
    A04 Reti Pirc-Lisitsin gambit 1.Nf3 f5 2.e4
    A04 Reti Pirc-Lisitsin gambit deferred 1.Nf3 f5 2.d3 Mf6 3.e4
    A04 Reti opening 1.Nf3 d6
    A04 Reti Wade defense 1.Nf3 d6 2.e4 Bg4
    A04 Reti Herrstroem gambit 1.Nf3 g5
    A05 Reti opening 1.Nf3 Nf6
    A05 Reti Spassky's variation 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 b5
    A05 Reti King's Indian attack 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6
    A05 Reti-Smyslov variation 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.b4



    3.3 The complete ECO list with moves and descriptions

    The 2500 ECO codes in a plain text file.


    3.4 More then 56 Mb (!) editable opening books

  • Incredible book for WHITE only of more than 9 Mb!
  • Incredible book for BLACK only of more than 6 Mb!
  • Both books are made from won games only.
  • The book depth of both books is 30 full moves!

    Apart from this 66 separate editable opening books are made based on the most important opening lines such as the Sicilian defense, Ruy-Lopez etc.


    3.5 Open (play) as Kasparov or Karpov or...

    94 (!) editable opening books made from won games of the best chess players all time. Loading these books in Rebel allows you to open (play) as the player in question! For the best results each book of the 47 world famous chess players is split into a repertoire for white and black. View, study, practice the openings of your favorite chess player!


    3.6 Two very special big opening books

    The 2 big editable opening books (total 16 Mb) also converted to the much faster non editable Rebel book format. The Rebel book overview reports the following huge statistic:

    BOOK LINES MOVES POSITIONS LENGTH
    White 32,680 1,504,143 3,749,246 29
    Black 21,462 1,013,659 2,477,064 29



    4. Utilities




    4.1 DBUTIL (version 2.0)

    This is a improved version of the commercial ($30) DBUTIL program. DBUTIL (database utilities) enables you to modify, rearrange your databases in your preferred way. The possibilities of DBUTIL 2.0 are:

  • Import and Export games, a wide range of selections are available!
  • Recover damaged databases.
  • Remove double games in a database (very fast!)
  • Delete games in a database, a wide range of selections are available.
  • Rename up to 1000 player names in ONE session.
  • Modify up to 1000 Elo ratings of specific players in ONE session.
  • Compress a database.


    4.2 RBM to MVS (version 1.0)

    This little utility program enables you to convert editable REBEL opening files (RBM) to the REBEL non-editable format (MVS). The advantages are:

  • Compression of 60%
  • Faster book search in Rebel.
  • Use all 30 Mb books in Rebel Decade.


    4.3 RBM to MVS (version 2.0)

    This is an improved version of RBM to MVS written by Jari Kylmälä. The advantages/disadvantages above version 1.0 are:

  • Much better compression!
  • Optimized book search in Rebel.
  • Slower because of the perfect compression.


    4.4 Convert ChessBase or NicBase databases to Rebel

    This utility program converts all your ChessBase and Nicbase databases into Rebel databases. Excluded from the conversion are game fragments and comments. But of course you can also convert game fragments and/or games with annotations by using Rebel's PGN support.

    4.5 Import a Rebel database

    This little utility program enables you to connect 2 REBEL databases to one or to create ONE big database from several smaller REBEL databases. There are no limitations concerning the size of Rebel databases as you can make a Rebel database as big as you want using this utility.

    4.6 Make diagrams from EPD files (WIN)

    EPD2DIAG is written by Manfred Rosenboom and is an easy to use tool to show and print chess diagrams. While creating EPD positions from games in Rebel8 is a piece of cake this program is a must have for every diagram lover. EPD2DIAG easily converts all your EPD positions into printable diagrams.

    4.7 Make diagrams from EPD files (DOS)

    EPD2BMP is another powerful diagram utility. EPD2BMP is able to convert a multiple EPD file to a corresponding number of diagrams in the Windows Paintbrush BMP format. You can find many diagram examples on our home page as the result after using this utility. EPD2BMP is written by B. Heinold and is public domain.

    5. Technical data




    5.1 Rebel database description

    Technical description of the Rebel database data layout including some C source to process a Rebel database. It is meant for programmers who want to write their own utilities. It's NOT meant to start discussions or ask questions about. We have received a lot of requests for it and the provided documentation is a good base to start with.

    5.2 Optimized PIF files (shortcuts) for Rebel

    Several sets of optimized shortcuts for Windows 95 running Rebel. The shortcuts seems to solve some weird problems some users are facing also the shortcuts will avoid a spinning hard disk because of the Windows Swap file. Just copy the right shortcut to your desktop and launch Rebel from your desktop.

    5.3 BTREE+ software for handling Rebel databases

    BPLUS (version 2.53) is C application for processing the Rebel database index files. It is meant for programmers who want to write their own utilities using the Rebel index files too. BPLUS enables Rebel to represent an unsorted gamefile (.DAT) in a fully sorted way. Because of BPLUS 2.53 Rebel is able to find all games between 'Player A' and 'Player B' within a few seconds in our Rebel Million 1,100,000 games collection for example. BPLUS 2.53 is written by 'Hunter and Associates' and is Shareware.

    5.4 Quit to DOS, useful Win95 utility

    This little freeware utility is for WINDOWS 95 users who are still in love with the MSDOS prompt. After running the utility once, you have the possibility to boot your Pc in pure DOS as you could with the old Windows 3.x. QUIT2DOS is freeware and is written by 'Bardon Data Systems' and can be contacted at http://www.bardon.com

    6. Remaining data




    6.1 Rebel at AEGON

    Games, analysis of all the games Rebel played on the AEGON tournaments of the last 4 years.

    Year PROGRAM PERF ELO TPR
    1994 Rebel 6.0 75% 2470
    1995 Rebel 7.0 66% 2473
    1996 Rebel 8.0 66% 2530
    1997 Rebel 9.0 75% 2619



    6.2 The Rebel-Yusupov match

    Games, pictures and all details of the recent Rebel-Yusupov match which Rebel won with 10½-6½.


    6.3 Deep Blue-Kasparov, the rematch

    Games, analysis and analysis of the recent Deep Blue-Kasparov match which Deep Blue won with 3½-2½.


    6.4 About 3000 test positions in EPD format

    Most known test sets in EPD format for testing your chess skills or your computer's strength. The following test sets are available:

    TESTSET POSITIONS TARGET
    Endgame 1258 Test your end game knowledge
    GM-1 100 Grand master combinations
    GM-2 48 Grand master combinations
    GM-3 63 Grand master combinations
    Sacs 1001 Test your tactical understanding
    Win at Chess 300 The famous WAC test set
    Bratco 25 The famous Bratco test set
    Nolut 11 11 very difficult sacrifices
    BT-2450 30 To estimate your computer's strength
    BT-2630 30 To estimate your computer's strength



    6.5 Same 3000 test positions in REBEL format

    Same 3000 test positions but also in Rebel format. In the coming months we will strive to extend the number of test sets as there are many more.


    6.6 The 107,000 TOP database in PGN format

    The TOP 107,000 database also converted in the PGN format ready to port into your favorite database program.


    6.7 All current SSDF games in PGN

    All available SSDF games (computer-computer) in PGN. Estimated number of games is 4000.



    We claim this Cdrom is one of the best chess products ever concerning what you get for money also taking into consideration that you can get this Cdrom for free if you purchase the new Rebel 9.0.