Author: Harald Faber
Date: 03:17:20 03/09/00
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On March 08, 2000 at 14:11:19, John Merlino wrote: >On March 08, 2000 at 03:47:38, Harald Faber wrote: >> >>May I ask some questions and demands? :-) >> >>1) Any release date (approx.) for CM8k? >>2) Will there be a new King-engine in it? >>3) Me and many others would like to see more analysis features: >> a) n-variation like in the cb family and Shredder >> b) include/exclude certain moves from analysis like in Rebel >> c) analyse database completely or only selected games, also with PGN/EPD or >> if only PGN then please also FEN-lines >> d) analysis monitor = background analysis, e.g. in player-player-mode is a >> wish since ages...of course refers to a) and b) >>4) auto232- or better LAN-support for autoplaying games against other >>programs/machines >>5) 64MB hash...well...nowadays there might be wishes for limit of 128MB but >> considering the engine speed/nodes per second, 64MB might be enough. > >In answer to your questions/demands ;-) > >1) Mattel Interactive (along with every other company that has been in charge of >the Chessmaster series for many years) has decreed that there should be a new >version once a year. Therefore the next version will almost certainly be out in >September or October. I supposed so. >2) There will DEFINITELY be a new King engine, as Johan de Koning has signed a >5-year contract with Mattel Interactive. So CM8K will have The King 3.x. This is fine news. :-) >3a) Very Doubtful. >3b) Doubtful, although I'll pass it along. I expect the worst. :-) >3c) I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for here. Please explain further.... AFAIK one can only analyse the current loaded game. It would also be useful to analyse all games of a database. And, of course, me and some other computerchess addicts would also like to see EPD analysis, either with analyse EPD or with analyse database where the database only contains EPD/FEN-positions. >3d) Yes (finally!) I gave up hoping for this, now it really happens! :-) >4) Auto232 is doubtful, although not completely ruled out. But the ability to >have a computer personality play over a LAN connection is a possibility and >could be done if there is enough time (always the big issue when dealing with >such a short development cycle, which is usually only about 7 months from start >until Beta). This would be absolutely great. So far only Shredder and Crafty have that function included but many more users with 2 PCs or more have and prefer LAN instead of serial connection. And using LAN, well, some companies may complain about that follow-up to DOOM. ;-) Imagine company-wide championships either human-played or different personalities. :) No more reason to play that Johnnie-Walker-game. ;-) >5) Actually, Johan has stated that The King can handle hash table sizes up to >640MB(!), but development team rightly feels that that is overkill. Even Johan >has said that, in most circumstances, anything more than 16MB is unnecessary. OK, when Johan says so...even MCP8 fills 61MB easily on tournament mode on K6-200 and the King is not much slower. So >the GUI will allow the user to set values up to 64MB (perhaps 128MB). Remember >that the TYPICAL Chessmaster user could get himself into serious trouble by >cranking the value all the way up on his mimimum spec machine. Would it be hard for the programmers to get the physical free RAM and set the hash automatically to the first value below that size? >6) [suggested by another post] -- The development team (along with Johan) are >currently doing a "proof of concept" regarding Winboard support in CM8K. The way >it would work is that you could bring any Winboard engine INTO CM8K, but The >King engine would not work OUTSIDE of CM8K. That's the current plan, although >it's still too early to tell.... > >jm
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