Rebel
Rebel,
a chess program developed by Ed Schröder. After Ed's retirement from competitive computer chess in 2003, his latest commercial version, Rebel 12, supports the Chess Engine Communication Protocol and is market by Lokasoft, including their ChessPartner graphical user interface running under Windows. In 2004, Ed Schröder released the free ProDeo based on Rebel. The free Rebel - The Next Generation in March 2014, turned out to be an early April fool, a Stockfish version was running in the background passing information to ProDeo.
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Rebel with NNUE
Rebel 14, released in January 2022 as UCI compliant open source engine under the GPL v3.0, is based on Fruit 2.1 by Fabien Letouzey and Growing Fruit improvements by Pawel Koziol, the Fruit evaluation replaced by an own NNUE implementation dubbed Benjamin 1.1 [2], along with optimized NNUE inference code by Chris Whittington [3]. 'Rebel 14 is over 350 Elo stronger than the latest ProDeo 3.1 [4]. Soon later, the further improved Rebel 14.1 was released, which came along with four different networks crated by Chris Whittington in the famous Chess System Tal style [5]. In April 2022 followed Rebel 15 based on Toga[6]. And in November 2022 Rebel 16 with a code base by Chris Whittington, Neural Network by Ed Schröder and Opening Book by Jeroen Noomen[7].
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Rebel 12 [8]
Photos & Games
WCCC 1986
WCCC 1986 showdown: Schaeffer, Nelson (shirt with drawing), Berliner, Ebeling, Schröder [9]
Round 5, Rebel - Bebe [10]
[Event "WCCC 1986"] [Site "Cologne, Germany"] [Date "1986.06.15"] [Round "5"] [White "Rebel"] [Black "Bebe"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.Bf4 a6 8.Nf3 Bg4 9.Be2 Qb6 10.Qd2 Bg7 11.O-O O-O 12.h3 Bxf3 13.Bxf3 Nbd7 14.Rad1 Rfe8 15.b3 Ne5 16.Be2 Qb4 17.Qc2 Re7 18.Bg3 Rae8 19.Rfe1 g5 20.Rf1 Kh8 21.Rc1 h5 22.f4 gxf4 23.Rxf4 Ng6 24.Rf5 Nxe4 25.Nxe4 Qxe4 26.Qxe4 Rxe4 27.Bxh5 Ne7 28.Rxf7 Bd4+ 29.Kh1 Nxd5 30.Rxb7 Rd8 31.Bf3 Re3 32.Bh4 Nf6 33.Rf7 Re6 34.Bd5 Nxd5 35.Bxd8 Nb4 36.a3 Kg8 37.Rcf1 Nc2 38.Rf8+ Kg7 39.a4 d5 40.h4 Ne3 41.R1f7+ Kg6 42.Rc7 Nd1 43.Rg8+ Kf5 44.Rf7+ Ke4 45.g4 Kd3 46.h5 Re1+ 47.Kg2 Ne3+ 48.Kg3 Be5+ 49.Kh4 Rh1+ 50.Kg5 Rg1 51.Kg6 Rxg4+ 52.Bg5 Rb4 53.Bxe3 Kxe3 54.Re8 Rg4+ 55.Kh7 Re4 56.Ra7 d4 57.Rxa6 d3 58.Rg6 d2 59.Rg1 Kf2 60.Reg8 Re1 61.R1g2+ Ke3 62.Rxd2 Kxd2 63.Rc8 Bd4 64.Rb8 Re6 65.Rb7 Kc2 66.b4 c4 67.b5 c3 68.Rd7 Kd3 69.b6 c2 70.b7 c1=Q 0-1
WCCC 1992
WCCC 1992: Richard Lang, Ossi Weiner, Jan Louwman, Ed Schröder, Rob Kemper [11]
Round 4, Chess Genius - ChessMachine WK [12]
[Event "7th World Computer Chess Championship"] [Site "Madrid, Spain"] [Date "1992.11.26"] [Round "4"] [White "Chess Genius"] [Black "ChessMachine WK"] [Result "0-1"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 e6 3.c4 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.O-O dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.Qxc4 b5 9.Qc2 Bb7 10.Bd2 Be4 11.Qc1 Bb7 12.Rd1 Nc6 13.Bf4 Nd5 14.Bg5 f6 15.Bd2 Nb6 16.e3 Qe8 17.Qc2 Bd6 18.Nh4 Nc4 19.Bc3 g5 20.Nf3 b4 21.Be1 N4a5 22.Nbd2 g4 23.Nh4 f5 24.a3 Kh8 25.Nf1 Ne7 26.Bxb4 Bxb4 27.axb4 Nac6 28.Qc4 Qd7 29.b5 axb5 30.Qxb5 Rfb8 31.Rxa8 Bxa8 32.Qa4 Ne5 33.Qa7 N5c6 34.Qa3 Bb7 35.Rc1 Ra8 36.Qc5 Ra5 37.Qc4 Nd5 38.Nd2 Ncb4 39.Nb3 Ba6 40.Nc5 Bxc4 41.Nxd7 Ba6 42.Bxd5 Nxd5 43.Nc5 Bc8 44.Nd3 Ba6 45.Nf4 Nxf4 46.gxf4 Bb7 47.f3 gxf3 48.Rxc7 Be4 49.Rc8+ Kg7 50.Rb8 Ra1+ 51.Kf2 Rc1 52.Nxf3 Rc2+ 53.Kg3 Bd5 54.Rb6 h6 55.h4 Re2 56.Ne5 h5 57.e4 fxe4 58.f5 exf5 59.Rg6+ Kh7 60.Rg5 Be6 61.Rxh5+ Kg7 62.Rg5+ Kf6 63.b4 Re3+ 64.Kf4 Rh3 65.Rg6+ Ke7 66.Rh6 e3 67.Nc6+ Kd7 68.Ne5+ Ke7 69.Ng6+ Kd8 70.Rh8+ Kc7 71.Re8 Kd6 72.Ra8 Bc4 73.Ne5 Bb5 74.Nf7+ Ke7 75.Nh6 Rxh4+ 76.Kg5 Rxh6 77.Kxh6 e2 78.Ra5 e1=Q 79.Rxb5 0-1
