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Subject: Re: A few questions before I buy Genius 6

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 02:38:53 03/20/99

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On March 19, 1999 at 02:20:07, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Tord
>
>>My version of Genius 6 (I have downloaded the first patch from the Millennium
>>Web Site, but not the second) has one extremely annoying bug:  It is not
>>possible to switch off the sound!  Does anybody know if this has been
>>corrected in the latest patch?
>
>
>No it has not been corrected.  Some other bugs I have reported have also not
>been corrected either eg
>
>1 Does not remember the engine that was loaded ie always loads G6
>2 Can not turn off sound
>3 Does not store the figurine option ie figurine always on after loaded
>
>Apart from that it is an excellent interface.

Another bug which I forgot to mention:  The Genius 6 engine does not
"understand" Fischer time controls.  If you for instance play a 2 5 game
against the program, Genius plays as if you chose a 2 0 time control.  It
simply ignores the extra five seconds which are added to its clock every
move.

Tord



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