- REBEL EMAIL SUPPORT -
Rebel 8.0 was the first chess program in the world that supports chess by email. On the Internet several organizations are active providing people to play chess all over the world done by email.

The advantages are clear:
  • You always have an opponent.
  • Many users play 5-10 games at the same time.
  • No stamps are needed anymore.
  • No long response times, it sometimes happens that if you email your next move to your opponent you get the reply the same day! This is one of the main reasons why chess by email has become so popular.

    Because of this Rebel 8.0 contains software to make your email life much more comfortable. Here is some information about organizations active on the Internet with email chess.

    The International Email Chess Group (IECG) is the premier and largest email chess organization in the world. The IECG provides Internet users with the opportunity to play rated email chess games with people all over the world for free.If you are not familiar with chess by email visit the IECG now

    The International Email Chess Club [IECC] provides chess players with access to the opportunity to play rated email chess games with people all over the world in a friendly environment. If you are not familiar with chess by email you can visit the IECC now.

    The International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) is the worldwide organization for correspondence chess (which is a game of chess in which moves are delivered by post or any other form of transmission). The aims of ICCF are to organize, develop and promote the study and practice of international correspondence chess throughout the world. If you are not familiar with the ICCF you can visit the ICCF now.

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    PREFACE
    
    
    
    On the initial initiative of one of the leading IECG members REBEL 8.0 
    
    will support chess by email. We will give you now a detailed summery what 
    
    is inside the program.
    
    
    
    The main principle is simple:
    
    1) REBEL will output (any) of your email games to a text file which contains 
    
       a general form + all needed info to send your move to your opponent.
    
    2) When you receive a new move from your opponent REBEL will read the form
    
       and stores (on request) all information into the database.
    
    
    
    The following example shows you what REBEL will output: 
    
    
    
    ============================================================================
    
       |\_                                                        
    
      /  .\_  *  M O V E   T R A N S M I S S I O N   F O R M  *   
    
     | ( ___)          for the use of email chess games            
    
     |    \                   on the Internet                     
    
     |  =  |    -------------------------------------------------- 
    
     /_____\      Version 1.00            *   2 September 1996    
    
    [_______]   -------------------------------------------------- 
    
    ============================================================================
    
    
    
    EMAIL WHITE: mickey@mouse
    
    EMAIL BLACK: donald@duck
    
    
    
    GAME KEY     mickey_against_donald     (FREE UNIQUE KEY to define the game)
    
    RESULT 
    
    END
    
    
    
    [Event "Disney World"]
    
    [Site ""]
    
    [Date "1938.06.24"]
    
    [Round ""]
    
    [White "Mickey,M"]
    
    [Black "Donald,D"]
    
    [Result "0-1"]
    
    [BlackElo "1234"]
    
    [WhiteElo "1233"]
    
    [ECO "C08"]
    
    
    
    1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. exd5 exd5 5. Ngf3 Nf6 6. dxc5 Bxc5 7. Nb3 
    
    Bb6 8. Bb5+ Nc6 9. Qe2+ Be6 10. Nbd4 Qc8 11. O-O O-O 12. Nxe6 Qxe6 13. 
    
    Qxe6 fxe6 14. c3 Ng4 15. Bd2 e5 16. Be1 e4 17. Bxc6 bxc6 18. Nd4 Ne5 19. 
    
    Rd1 Rf6 20. Bd2 c5 21. Ne2 Nd3 22. Be3 Re8 23. b3 h6 24. Ng3 d4 25. Bd2 
    
    e3 26. fxe3 dxe3 27. Rxf6 exd2 28. Rxd2 gxf6 29. c4 Re1+ 30. Nf1 Nb4 31. 
    
    a3 Ra1 0-1
    
    
    
      |-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
    
    8 |     |     |     |     |     |     | *K  |     |
    
      |-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
    
    7 | *p  |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
    
      |-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
    
    6 |     | *B  |     |     |     | *p  |     | *p  |
    
      |-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
    
    5 |     |     | *p  |     |     |     |     |     |
    
      |-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
    
    4 |     | *N  |  p  |     |     |     |     |     |
    
      |-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
    
    3 |  p  |  p  |     |     |     |     |     |     |
    
      |-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
    
    2 |     |     |     |  R  |     |     |  p  |  p  |
    
      |-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
    
    1 | *R  |     |     |     |     |  N  |  K  |     |
    
      |-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|
    
         a     b     c     d     e     f     g     h
    
    
    
    Your move received: 
    
    
    
    Answered on:        
    
    White time:         
    
    Black time:         
    
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    
    
    Remarks on the form...
    
    1) Only the first time of a game you have to input the key received by
    
       your email organization YOURSELF. The second time REBEL knows the key 
    
       while it is stored in the database. If you only play games with some
    
       of your chess friends simply enter an unique number or name which
    
       enables Rebel to recognize and separate all your games.
    
    2) EMAIL WHITE and EMAIL BLACK are optional. Here you can enter 
    
       your own email address and the one of your opponent. Also this is one time
    
       job pro game because REBEL will remember it.
    
    3) The game played sofar is automatically included in the form in 
    
       standard PGN notation.
    
    4) The diagram is optional, in REBEL you can choose if you want it written
    
       to the textfile or not.
    
    
    
    Reading the form...
    
    When you receive a move from your opponent, you simply import the received 
    
    textfile with REBEL. You will have the following possibilities:
    
    1) READ ONLY           The game is only loaded in the chessprogram (ready 
    
                           for analysing or whatever), afterthat you can 
    
                           save the game in the normal way.
    
    2) IMPORT IN DATABASE  as (1) but with automatic save in the database too.
    
    3) IMPORT & REWRITE    as (1) and (2) but the OLD game is automatically 
    
                           deleted! The old game is searched in the database 
    
                           (checks on GAME KEY + white & black name).
    
                           If found it will be deleted and the newer game is
    
                           inserted (very handy!).
    
    
    
    
    
    The comfort (the technical part) (1)
    
    REBEL 8.0 has two new functions in the Pulldown menu called:
    
    1) WRITE EMAIL FORM with the following submenus:
    
         WITH DIAGRAM
    
         WITHOUT DIAGRAM
    
         
    
    2) LOAD EMAIL FORM with the following submenus:
    
         READ ONLY
    
         IMPORT IN DATABASE
    
         IMPORT & REWRITE
    
    
    
    The comfort (the technical part) (2)
    
    While you send and receive so many emails special care is taken for all
    
    file handling. WRITE EMAILFORM will for example write your
    
    upcomimg email to the following SUGGESTED filename(s):
    
    
    
         96_06_24.001  or  96_06_24.002  etc. etc.
    
    
    
    Where "96_06_24" is todays date and "001" and "002" are todays follow ups!
    
    In this case all your email is FULLY sorted and easy to search for.
    
    If you do not like this system you simply can type a filename yourself!
    
    
    
    The comfort (the technical part) (3)
    
    ALL items of the form are written to the database so information is kept and
    
    can be viewed at any time you need it, meaning: 
    
       GAME KEY
    
       RESULT 
    
       Your move received:
    
       Answered on: 
    
       White time:  
    
       Black time: 
    
       EMAIL WHITE: 
    
       EMAIL BLACK:   
    
    
    
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    
    If you like what you have read sofar it will be a good idea to get fimiliar with REBEL. Here on our home page the free downloadable chess program REBEL DECADE is available.

    Although the program is a limited playing strength version of REBEL 6.0 it still plays on a FIDE ELO of 2200-2250 and will give you a reasonable impression what REBEL is.

    Furthermore check out the remaining chapters on our homepage, there is a lot of nice and juicy information about REBEL available.

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