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Subject: Re: Chessmaster's defects

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 03:56:26 03/07/02

On March 07, 2002 at 04:46:23, Brian Kostick wrote:

>On March 07, 2002 at 04:11:45, Sergei Smith wrote:
>
>>The King _does_ consume more than it's fair share of CPU resources.
>>I checked with several system monitors and Filemon.
>>Also, the need for an OPK number requires CM8000 to be run each time you start a
>>tournament with The King in the ChessBase GUI or WinBoard.
>>If The King of Chessmaster 9000 will still have this copy protection, not many
>>tournament organizers will buy it. I won't in any case.
>
>Sergei,
>
>  I don't understand what prompted you to post this but of course you are free
>to speak your opinion. When I use the 'TaskInfo' program I do not see unfair use
>by 'The King' engine, at least nothing notable.
>
>  To make 'The King' run without an OPK number now that would display some
>ingenuity. This OPK business and not being able to use the opening book as
>intended (i.e. outside the CM8000 GUI) is all too silly and not worth the time,
>imo.
>
>  As for Chessmaster 9000: Maybe the engine will be embedded in the GUI or be in
>a .dll and we will not discuss it here any more? I guess this concept, copy
>protection (or not), ect... is all part of what is discussed by the Chessmaster
>team and parent company.
>
>Regards,
>      BK

Like I told before It is more the clock in Chessmaster which makes the
other engines slowdown
And it is treu that the king consumes much cpu speed
It was made to use as much cpu speed it can get just read the manuals from  the
older versions of Chessmaster but they tried to solve this by  switching ponder
of.
( If I play windows versus windows program I always take back the last moves
and pause the clocks so none engine will be of border for the other engine)
I realy can't say anything about the way the king will consume CPU speed
as a winboard engine but still i am a litle sceptical about it.
But I am also a litle bit sceptical about autoplayer games and engine-engine
games in the first place.
Both using hash tables who says then don't cross each other.
Then again only testing can proof this.
Regards Marc

Re: Chessmaster's defects John Merlino 11:58:10 03/07/02
- Re: Chessmaster's defects Robert Hyatt 21:27:18 03/07/02
  - Re: Chessmaster's defects John Merlino 08:52:19 03/08/02
  - Re: Hey, I do that! Robert Pope 06:17:44 03/08/02
    - Re: Hey, I do that! Robert Hyatt 07:59:38 03/09/02
      - Re: Hey, I do that! Robert Pope 13:09:01 03/11/02
    - Re: Hey, I do that! Daniel Clausen 06:38:08 03/08/02
      - Re: Hey, I do that! Robert Pope 07:43:30 03/08/02
        
        Re: Hey, I do that! Miguel A. Ballicora 12:15:34 03/08/02
        
        Re: Hey, I do that! Sune Fischer 12:58:50 03/08/02
        
        Re: Hey, I do that! Robert Hyatt 08:01:41 03/09/02
        
        Re: Hey, I do that! Miguel A. Ballicora 14:31:45 03/08/02
        
        Re: Hey, I do that! Sune Fischer 14:50:44 03/08/02
        
        Re: Hey, I do that! Robert Hyatt 08:11:06 03/09/02
        
        Re: Hey, I do that! Miguel A. Ballicora 15:41:38 03/08/02
- Re: Chessmaster's defects Roy Eassa 12:38:59 03/07/02
  - Re: Chessmaster's defects John Merlino 13:21:01 03/07/02
    - Re: Chessmaster's defects Roy Eassa 13:38:00 03/07/02
      - Re: Chessmaster's defects Odd Gunnar Malin 15:49:18 03/07/02
        
        Re: Chessmaster's defects John Merlino 17:52:01 03/07/02
      - Re: Chessmaster's defects jerry young 14:06:14 03/07/02
        
        Re: Chessmaster's defects John Merlino 14:33:23 03/07/02

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