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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 10th Ed. YAWN!

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:21:13 05/15/04

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On May 15, 2004 at 09:02:05, Alex  wrote:

>On May 15, 2004 at 06:42:38, Jason Kent wrote:
>
>>>Therefore, 200 - 87 = 113 was the last increase for ChessMaster (approximately)
>>>Hence, 100-150 Elo would be par for the course.
>>
>>If chessmaster increases 50-100 points and becomes one of the strongest engines
>>availible, I'd be very surprised...and a quick buyer.  I'm a big CM9k fan, but
>>if all that changes is online play and art I'll be waiting for something else.
>That is true..................the 3d sets are kewl when laid out in a 2d
>perspective ( I really like the newspaper set). I'm very glad too see the engine
>is probably re-worked.  Indeed the extra art will be great...I get REALLY board
>playing on the same old sets and my child plays more chess with more boaards and
>features available (she loves the dogs set because she loves animals.)  Chess
>base does indeed fail when they keep giving the buyer THE SAME OLD GUI over and
>over again (ok ok so they have learned to give one extra set--big deal.)  I hope
>the opening book editor is vastly improved as that has been one of thier weak
>points for us hardcore players.  What would really be kewl is if in tournament
>mode it would SAVE THE GAMES that it plays to a file.  And tell me WHO would'nt
>love this feature -- THAT you could EASILY enter the selected games from a
>played tournament (especially from your own designed opening book-get where this
>is leading to?) into your personal opening book with the touch of a button at
>the users defined number of moves!!!!!!!!!!  FEED us please!   Chessbase
>certainly would'nt do THAT!  To much fear that a book would be created that
>would target thier programs!  But hey!  I would spend bux for that!!  Perhaps CM
>could market thier equivalent to chessbase for a cheaper price with the
>described feature and I would buy it!!  Who wouldnt?  Alex.

CM9000 already does save all tournament games to a PGN file. The PGN file will
be in the same directory as the CMT file, and will be named the same as the CMT
file except with a PGN extension.

As for the opening book stuff, I doubt that the editor has been improved as far
as functionality. I'm sure it has been reworked to fit the new GUI, but I would
be (pleasantly) surprised if there were new features in it.

jm



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