Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:51:05 03/07/02
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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. The next version of Chessmaster is almost certainly going to work similarly with regards to The King (i.e. OPK number, or some other kind of piracy protection, and it will not have internal access to an opening book). Which means that it will still be a Winboard-compatible engine and will not be an embedded engine like it was in CM7000 and previous versions). jm
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