Wisdom is knowing how

little we know -- Socrates

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Started in 1980, retired in 2004 REBEL was baptized into ProDeo, latin for gratis according to Dutch tradition.

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ProDeo 1.74 ProDeo 1.6 235 - 165
58.9%

ProDeo 1.74 ProDeo 1.73 246 - 209 54.1%

ProDeo 1.73 Fruit 2.1 100 - 73 57.8%

ProDeo 1.73 ProDeo 1.6 111 - 90 55.2%

ProDeo 1.73 ProDeo 1.72 109 - 91 54.2%

Rediscovery of some old stuff and connecting the right dots gives an excellent improvement.

Bugfix: length of the game space from 192 to 500 moves.

ProDeo (version 1.7) approximately 2700 ELO - Size 4 Mb

Download ProDeo 1.74

After the download open the archive and extract the folder ProDeo173 to your harddisk.

To run ProDeo you will need to announce the engine first.

Under Chessbase this means: Engine -> New UCI engine -> Browse -> RebelUCI.exe

Under ChessPartner do: Extra -> Engine Import Wizard -> Winboard engines -> Install -> ProDeo.exe

Under ARENA do: Engines -> New Engine -> UCI -> RebelUCI.exe

ARENA is freeware and can be downloaded here.

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The Rybka - ICGA fiasco

On June 28th 2011 IGCA president David Levy shattered the (computer) chess world with the announcement that programmer Vasik Rajlich, world champion computer chess in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 with Rybka has been found guilty to have plagiarized the work of another chess program called: Fruit.

As a result Vasik Rajlich was banned for life, his 4 world champion titles were taken away, an ICGA press release followed that was picked up by the mainstream media containing all kind of juicy extensions and half truths.

This page is meant to put things back into perspective