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Subject: Re: Chessmaster and SSDF

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 03:15:27 11/14/98

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On November 11, 1998 at 07:16:30, Thoralf Karlsson wrote:

>On November 10, 1998 at 04:34:59, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>
> >Just my opinion on this post and Detlef's: Apparently neither Mindscape nor
>>Johan de Koening have any interest in being listed by the SSDF, just as they
>>don't seem to be interested in attending the ICCA world championships. Otherwise
>>they would have provided an autoplayer years ago.
>>
>>I wonder if the SSDF care to confirm this.
>
>
>Mindscape has never contacted me concerning testing of the Chessmaster programs.
>
>Johan de Koning emailed me concerning King 2.5(?) at a time when we had started
>to test CM5000 manually on P90. If I understood him correctly the engines in
>these programs were identical or very similar. Neither of them could be tested
>using auto232. We had no possibility to play manually with both of them, so we
>declined his offer to send us the King-program and continued to play with
>CM5000.
>
>Thoralf Karlsson

If you contacted Mr. de Koning again, and offered to test the latest version of
the King if he were to implement auto-232 support, he might go for it.  Do you
think it is worth a try?

Dave Gomboc



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