		The NEW Rebel 8.0 briefly
	only the 25 new features above Rebel7 !!

GENERAL
- Improved playing strength (30 ELO points)
- Opening book of more than 850.000 moves (was 550.000)
- 5000 grandmaster games included

NEW BOOK FUNCTIONS 
- Make user book from a database. 
- Select a database and a new user book will be created!
- Edit user books. 
  All you need is a mouse!
  Load userbook, Add, remove or mark book moves, Add complete games 
  to a user book, Add parts of games to a user book, Save user book 
  Edit the books you just made with Make user book!
- Import external books. Import Chessmaster 4000, Genius or Fritz books 
  to the REBEL format. Now all done with a few mouse clicks!
- Joining REBEL books. Join books together! Make books as big as your 
  computers memory! Join the books of VOL1 and VOL2 together till one 
  big book! All done with a few mouse clicks!
   
NEW ANALYSE FUNCTIONS
- Rebel 8.0 supports FOUR clipboards. These boards can be used to temporarily 
  save a game or game fragment. This is very useful for the analysis of 
  games using the analyse levels. 
  You can easily switch from one game to another by clicking on the boards 
  or use hotkeys. You can choose yourself if the boards are visible or not.
- The Analyse level is greatly improved by adding a number of new features.
  The 11 new hot buttons, The 4 graphical clipboards and the SUPER warroom.
- Power analyse. 
  Speed up your analyse by 200-400% 
  Add or remove your own moves to be analyzed! 
  All done by a few mouse clicks.

NEW GRAPHICAL POSSIBILITIES
- The new 11 hot buttons. 11 new hot buttons are available representing the 
  most-used functions from the pulldown menus for optimal playing comfort.
- The Game Overview. This function creates a graphical overview of any game. 
  The game is divided into 15 small graphical boards including the move 
  number, the move and the (computer) score. Using this option, you can see 
  in a moment in which part of the game something has gone wrong, or in 
  which part of the game was decided. For a fast analysis, just click on 
  one of the 15 boards, and Rebel will automatically move to this point 
  in the game.
- Loading and saving colors. 
- Make your own favorite screen color settings.
  You can now load and save them 
- Move Input 
  Enter your moves by cllicking or dragging 
  Try both systems and judge for yourself which system is convenient for you!
- Figurines or text. 
  The moves are displayed as figurines or text.

THE NEW PLAYING LEVELS
- The energy FUN levels
  Energy Increasing REBEL refuels energy every move, defeat Rebel as 
  soon as possible!
  Energy Decreasing REBEL is losing energy every move, just hold on 
  and you will win!
  Energy Random REBEL takes random energy, only for people with strong nerves!
- The fixed time level. 
  Limit REBEL's thinking time to an exact number of seconds.
  Very handy for certain computer tests. Very useful in combination 
  with Analyse database.
- The ELO level. 
  Always losing on your program? 
  Rebel 8.0 is the solution, simply type your ELO raing to the 
  program and Rebel 8.0 will play on your strength!

REMAINING NEW OPTIONS
- The Simultaneous mode
  Play simultaneous against 4 opponents!
  The 4 games are visible by the new 4 graphical boards.
  Scores of the mini match are visible
- EPD support
  Game to EPD       The current game is written to an EPD file.
  Export database   ALL positions from the database are written 
                    to an EPD file. 
  Import EPD        The selected EPD file is completely imported into 
                    the database.
  Analyze EPD       The selected EPD file is analysed, BOOKUP compatible.
- Internet support
  Play chess on the Internet by email.
  Rebel makes email life easy and comfortable
- The SUPER war room (above the Rebel7 warroom)
  The four best main variations are displayed up to a depth of 5 plies.
- The move comment(s)
  You can decide now if you want to save the move comments or not in the functions
  Save game, Database to PGN etc. etc.
- Flexible Resign option
  Chose yourself a suitable value
  Rebel will resign on that value
- The new File menu
  The file menu is highly improved for all FILE functions
  You can now decide where to put the new file(s) on your hard disk. 
- Blindfold chess
  Practice and learn blindfold chess!
  There are several difficult options (from beginner to grandmaster)

Final remark
Rebel 8.0 now has 50 new features above Rebel DECADE 1.2!
Rebel 8.0 is over 200 ELO points stronger than Rebel DECADE 1.2!
