CONTENTS

• REBEL section (Rebel 10 - Rebel Century 4)
  
  
• TIGER section (Chess Tiger 12 and up)
  
  
• ECTOOL section (Ectool 6.0)
  
  
• GANDALF section (Gandalf 5 and up)
  
  

Rebel XP (DOS edition)  

Free download for Rebel 11.0, Rebel Century 4.0 or Gandalf 5.0 customers. All info on this page

Download Rebel XP the DOS edition (2.1 Mb)

Installation: Put one of the follwing original cdrom's (Rebel Century 4, Rebel 11 or Gandalf 5) into your cdrom drive, extract the archive and start Rebel as you are used too. The first time Rebel will check the cdrom your inserted and verify its correctness.

To create a shortcut run the program REBGROUP.

REBEL CENTURY 4 MEGA installation bugfix   

REBEL CENTURY 4 MEGA customers are advised to install the big EOC chess tree of 55 million positions again using the below listed SETUP program. As some users correctly pointed out the size of the EOC chess tree was too small (27 million positions).

The below utility will completely re-install the big EOC and after installation the EOC chess tree should display the correct size, 55 million.

Download the REBEL CENTURY 4.0 EOC installation setup update file (27 Kb).

Installation: Put Rebel-Century 4 MEGA cdrom in your cdrom drive, extract the archive into your installed Rebel-Century 4 directory (c:\century4) and run SETUPEOC from the installation directory.

REBEL CENTURY 4 Pentium IV bugfix

On some Pentium IV systems Rebel Century 4 tends to crash directly after launch. The below utility will fix this problem. There is no need to download the patch if your copy of Rebel Century 4 runs well.

Download the Rebel Century 4.0 update file (392 Kb).

Installation: Extract the archive into your installed Rebel-Century 4 directory (c:\century4) and run INSTALL from the installation directory.

REBEL CENTURY 3.3

What is new:

• Analyze Selected Games. From the database select the games you want to analyze, go to the UTILITIES menu and select ANALYZE SELECTION.
  
  
• Analyze Database. Select the database you want to analyze, go to the UTILITIES menu and select ANALYZE DATABASE.
  
  
• Analyze game, now analyses 4 moves (was 2 moves). More power when analysing your games or grandmaster games, REBEL will analyze now 2 extra alternative moves. This without hardly any noticeable time loss.
  
  
• Bugfixes and new features in the Personalities:
  • Loading/Saving Personalities now without information loss.
  • DEEP/DEEPER/DEEPEST working again.
  • Added [ANTI-GM] for the use in engine-engine matches.
  • Added [SMART EVAL] for more secure positional play.
  • Added [SEARCH = NULLMOVE] for more secure search.
  • Added [PRUNE] for more effective pruning.
    
    
  • Bugfix for some Pentium-4 systems.

For optimum use of the new parameters see the README.TXT file.

A stronger chess engine is included, roughly 20-30 elo better on longer time controls. Also included is a modified version of the PCM personality of Gert Wallander which adds another 10-15 elo points to REBEL.

Download the Rebel Century 3.3 update file (425 Kb).

Installation: Extract the archive into your installed Rebel-Century 3 directory (c:\century3) and run INSTALL from the installation directory.

CAT update   

CAT (Computer Analysis Tool) is a new type of database similar to the EOC approach. While EOC chess trees focus on human games CAT is a chess tree for computer analysis only. CAT is the way to organize your computer-computer databases (games and/or positions).

Rebel Century 3.0 is equipped with the standard CAT database COMPCOMP containing 143,775 analyzed positions on long time controls. This CAT database will be frequently updated with new analyzed positions.

• Update-1: 27,000 new positions, source mainly from SSDF games (640 Kb)
  
  
• Update-2: 149,000 new positions, purpose opening study, source CAP project by Danniel Corbit. This download of 4.5 Mb will double the size of the default CAT database as found on the Rebel 11.0 cdrom to over 300,000 positions.   
  
  

Instruction example:

• Unzip "cat-upd1.zip" into the sub-directory CAT of your installed Rebel-Century 3.0 directory.
• Load the "COMPCOMP" CAT database (menu DATA) found in the sub-directory CAT.
• Choose "Merge CAT with CAT" and Rebel Century 3.0 will import the new analyzed positions into the "COMPCOMP" CAT database.

Added a FAQ to the CAT pages

Special CAT databases   

Various other CAT databases that shows you the power of CAT.

• TEST SUITES 7700 positions containing deep analysis of all the known so called test-suites. Using this database Rebel instantly will find most of the often difficult key-moves.
  
  

Instruction example:

• Unzip "suites.zip" into the sub-directory CAT of your installed Rebel-Century 3.0 directory.
• Load the "suites" CAT database (menu DATA) found in the sub-directory CAT.
• Set "Use EOC Knowledge" to "Strong" (menu OPTIONS).
• Load a known test-suite, for instance the BT2630 database, and Rebel will find most of the key-moves instantly.

GAMBIT opening book   

Brandnew opening book by Jeroen Noomen.

A 'wild', open and vicious book, full of gambit lines, less known variations and a lot more variety then the normal standard REBEL book. Enjoy yourself and have fun!

Some lines to mention: Marshall gambit, Volga gambit, Evans gambit, King's gambit, Trompovsky, Budapest defence, Belgrade gambit, Sicilian Dragon, Sicilian English attack, Dutch Defence, Alekhine's Defence, Philidor (including gambit lines), Ruy Lopez Siesta attack, 1. b3 and many, many more!

Download the GAMBIT book (560 Kb).

Installation

• Unzip the (downloaded) file GAMBIT.ZIP into your CENTURY3/BOOKS directory.
• Start REBEL CENTURY 3 as you are used too.
• Load the GAMBIT book via menu BOOKS -> Load Opening Book.
• Turn OFF the "Tournament Book" (menu BOOKS).

DUCTH-BASE 1851-2000   

A Chess Historical Database - the early days of chess - Major Dutch events, tournaments, matches, exhibition- and simultaneous games during the period 1851-2000 are presented. This database contains more than 28,000 games (in over 500 important chess events). In DUTCH-BASE you will not only find classics, but also lesser known tournaments and matches that are not in the big databases yet but all these tournaments are held in Holland. For creating cross tables, some blank games are included.

The complete DUTCH-BASE is about 70,000 games and will be presented on one of our next cdrom products. To avoid long downloading times DUTCH-BASE for now is limited to the main important 28,000 games and the download size already exceeds amply 2 Mb.

This database is one of the life-works of Wybe Koopmans author of the REBEL database who spend more than 2 years making DUTCH-BASE.

Download DUTCH-BASE in REBEL format (2.2 Mb)

View statistic (included in download)

100 Years of Chess 1824-1938

A Chess Historical Database - the early days of chess - Main tournaments, matches, exhibition- and simultaneous games during the period 1824-1938 are presented. This database contains more than 27,000 games. In this Historical Base you will not only find classics, but also lesser known tournaments and matches that are not in the big databases yet. For creating cross tables, some blank games are included.

PART-I 1850-1899 (6450 games) (610 Kb)
View statistic (included in download)

PART-II 1900-1909 (5008 games) (470 Kb)
View statistic (included in download)

PART-III 1910-1919 (2467 games) (220 Kb)
View statistic (included in download)

PART-IV 1920-1929 (5520 games) (530 Kb)
View statistic (included in download)

PART-V 1930-1938 (7297 games) (730 Kb)
View statistic (included in download)

Gideon PRO

Gideon Chess, our first chess program for the PC (1993). Gideon although at the time running on a RISC processor became world champion in Madrid 1992 where it beat all the big-irons. A collectors item!

Download Gideon Professional (150 Kb).

After the download is finished unzip GIDEON.ZIP into a new directory (using include sub-folders!) and start the program with GIDEON.EXE

Winning personalities (2)   

Rebel Company also has rewarded 2 special personalities for playing games because they have a very interesting playing style. During our testing we noticed that some of the personalities people contributed changed Rebel into a brilliant chess player at some stages of a game. It is a pity these engines in other areas of the game could not compete against the rock solid default settings of Rebel Century.

• Marc van Hal his Alexander Alekhine personality plays brilliant chess at times. It is a real pleasure to play against this personality. This personality plays a kind of bluff chess, it scatters with pawns as soon as it smells your king or notices other positional advantages. Marc receives $200.
  
  
• Howard Exner his personality for tactics is already mentioned and available for download from the Rebel Home Page. His engine for playing games did not bad at all in the contest and was close to a 100% score. The nice thing about this engine is its very natural, balanced and strong attacking style. Howard receives $100.

You can now download the 2 special personalities and change your Rebel Century into an even more attractive opponent to play against.

Download the 2 rewarded engines


Installation (ECTool)

Unzip the download in your installed ECTool directory, for example: C:\ECTOOL\rebelcentury2

To load a personality go to the menu TOOLS, pick REBEL CONFIG and click on the EDITOR button. Once in the "Personality Editor" you can load the desired personality.

Rebel Century users can unzip the download to any place on their hard disk and load the desired personality using "define personality" (ALT_D) and then LOAD.

TIGER SECTION

Major update REBEL 11.0  

This update is the work of almost 5 months and is offered for free.

Its main advantage is an increase in playing strength estimated at 40-50 elo points above the version on the REBEL 11 cdrom. Another extra 10-20 elo points should be added because of the use of end-game table bases is now supported.

All details on this special page

DOWNLOAD and INSTALLATION  

• After downloading run the self-extracting executable by double-clicking on downloaded file rt2upd1.exe and follow the installation instructions.
• That is all folks!

Start the download of the free Rebel 11.0 update (1.3 Mb)

Engine research tool for REBEL-TIGER II  

Available for download, a tool that allows engine / engine matches on a single computer of any pair of Rebel-Tiger engines, this includes Winboard and Lokasoft engines too.

The tool requires ChessPartner or Rebel Tiger.

Download from: http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/downloads/ert.zip (29 Kb)

Update Lokasoft engine  

Available for REBEL-TIGER owners; the Lokasoft standard engine 5.0.0.0 with full Nalimov table bases support.

Download from: http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/downloads/engine.zip (208 Kb)

Extract the engine.dll from the zip file and copy it to your installation directory.

Beware, the table base support is only for the Lokasoft engine and not for REBEL-TIGER II (yet).

11 new piece sets for REBEL-TIGER  

A nice selection of new piece sets made by Fabio from Italy!

• Preview MOTIF         Download MOTIF
  
  
• Preview CASES        Download CASES
  
  
• Preview CONDEL       Download CONDEL
  
  
• Preview KINGDOM     Download KINGDOM
  
  
• Preview LEIPZIG        Download LEIPZIG
  
  
• Preview LUCENA        Download LUCENA
  
  
• Preview MAGNETIC     Download MAGNETIC
  
  
• Preview MARK            Download MARK
  
  
• Preview MEDIEVAL      Download MEDIEVAL
  
  
• Preview MERIDA          Download MERIDA
  
  
• Preview ARLEQUIN       Download ARLEQUIN

Unzip the archive in the sub directory BITMAPS where you have installed REBEL-TIGER.

This usually is: C:\Program Files\Rebel\RebelTigerII\Bitmaps

To select a new piece set: VIEW -> SELECT PIECE SET

GAMBIT opening book for GAMBIT-TIGER 1.0  

The popularity of the Gambit version of REBEL-TIGER II requires a similar opening book. This giant job is done by Jeroen Noomen and a first GAMBIT BOOK for Gambit Tiger is now available for download.

The Gambit Book has become a wild, open and vicious book, full of gambit lines, less known variations and a lot more variety then the normal standard Tiger book. Enjoy yourself and have fun!

Some lines to mention: Marshall gambit, Volga gambit, Evans gambit, King's gambit, Trompovsky, Budapest defence, Belgrade gambit, Sicilian Dragon, Sicilian English attack, Dutch Defence, Alekhine's Defence, Philidor (including gambit lines), Ruy Lopez Siesta attack, 1. b3 and many, many more!

Download the GAMBIT book (5.2 Mb).

Installation

• Unzip the (downloaded) file TIGERBOK.ZIP into your installion directory.
• Run the "Swap Tiger Books" shortcut (or SWAP.BAT) as found in your installation directory to exchange the standard book with the gambit book and vice versa.
• Your installation directory usually is: C:\Program Files\Rebel\RebelTigerII

For playing strength is is NOT advised to use the gambit book together with the standard Tiger 13.0 engine but use the gambit book only for the Gambit Tiger engine. However you are of course free to experiment.

Feedback wanted: While this is a first attempt to create a special book for Gambit Tiger's challenging playing style we certainly can use some feedback, comments and played games by you. Please feel free to contribute your games, feelings and comments on REBEL FORUM (section REBEL-TIGER).

Thanks in advance!