Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:39:13 03/10/00
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On March 09, 2000 at 21:56:46, Tina Long wrote: >Thanks very much for the news you are providing on CM8k. > >At last a new "King" engine on the way. > >The feedback you have provided here over the last year has been excellent, >particularly considering the "Problems" with CM7k. > >I am glad you will keep us informed on CM8k. > >Do you need any Beta Testers? > >queue starts here guys, > >Tina Long Tina and Harald, Many thanks, guys. It is much appreciated. As for beta testers, all testing (at this time) has to go through Mattel Interactive's testing plan. Now, though, there is a new unknown in that APPARENTLY Mattel's headquarters might also do their own semi-independent testing. The procedure still needs to get pinned down. HOWEVER, there MIGHT be a testing procedure that would be considered "open", but it would only involve rating the personalities more accurately with respect to the "real world". What the development team is hoping to do (given their short amounts of both time and money) is get a large amount of people who are USCF rated, and have them play "rated" games against the personalities in the game. They would be looking for ANY people who would be interested (the widest range of ratings is preferable). Of course, if you want to do this yourself, you are free to do so and you could just e-mail the PGN games to me and I'll forward them to the development team. As it stands now, the games that you would play (once again, due to time constraints) would be Fischer 2/12. True, this is at the high end of blitz chess, but since there are SO MANY personalities that need to be tested, they would need as many games as possible. Once again, thanks for your compliments, jm
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