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Subject: Re: Chessmaster's defects

Author: Sergei Smith

Date: 02:33:28 03/08/02

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On March 07, 2002 at 14:48:38, John Merlino wrote:

>On March 07, 2002 at 13:59:32, Sergei Smith wrote:
>
>>All the fuss to extract the OPK number, maybe the engine is not worth the bother
>>if you for example need to interrupt a several-day tournament in ChessBase to
>>extract this number. Let 's hope CM 9K will not be so capricious and demanding
>>otherwise I'd sooner go for Rebel WB
>
>As I mentioned in another reply, you only need to get a new OPK number when you
>reboot your computer. So, you CAN run unattended tournaments with The King for
>as long as you want, as long as you do not reboot. You just need to get the OPK
>number once before the tournament starts.
>
>jm
>
>
>The King (through Winboard in ICS) suddenly began >to
>start searching to 1 ply, in a middle of a series of games (not in the middle of
>the game,mind you). I think sometimes it resets by itself, even if you don't
>reboot.
>
>Aaron

I noticed this several times. I'm through with the CM series if this silly
protection will be kept in the next version.



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