Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 22:46:11 05/25/00
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On May 25, 2000 at 13:59:44, John Merlino wrote: >On May 25, 2000 at 07:22:08, Daniel Chancey wrote: > >>Can there be other ways to setup certain personalities? >> >>On 7000 and 6000, I've seen Attack/Defend Material/Position, Control of >>Center, Mobility, King Safety, Passed Pawns, and Pawn Weaknesses. Also the >>Seirawan personality had a very low King Safety level. Can you add some other >>options like, Tactics, Attacking the King, Safe/Risky play, And certain >>Strategies on openings. And how sensitive will the changes be? (example: >>Control of Center changed from 100 to 110) >> >>There was no endgame tablebase on the Chessmaster versions. Is there going to >>be any on Chessmaster 8000? If not, Can you improve endgame play? >> >>Finally, Some personalities (1500-2000) find mates in positions no human would >>possibly see quickly. I would like for those personalities to have their mate >>search reduced and the even weaker ones to play like weak humans (fewer >>sacrifices, and piece hanging). >> >> >>Please respond to these messages CCC members and the Chessmaster Team. I will >>be greatful for them. >> >>Castle2000 > >I cannot answer these questions until I get more information from the >development team. I will be posting a "spoiler list" in the near future >(probably within two or three weeks), so stay tuned.... > >jm Well as long as they fix up the hash table thing and allow the program to analyse pretty well, then I do not think I will ask for much else. I have a feeling that once again the more serious chess player will be not bothered about, thats to be expected. The mass market will be catered for with allot of bells and whistles. I would not be surprised if since the takeover from Mattel that there is not a Barbie personality thrown in there somewhere. One thing I would like is more attractive women personalities to play against. There are some pretty Ungly dudes and dudettes in that program. I want to play against some models. They are always going on about how they have brains, well lets see some of them. How about getting permission to throw in a couple of celebrities or something, Now if I was playing against Gillian Anderson from the x-files. Thats a hell of allot more fun than against some unknown from New York who looks like she has been hit by a cement truck :) - Joke ???? To put it this way, just allow it to play like CM6K and hopefully improve things from there, the CM7K to me was a big failure. Forget trying to make the program run using drivers like directX and at least get the program nice and stable to most systems. I think they would of realised by now that CM7K with no new engine did not create the buzz like the other versions. There was very little positive comments, even though there were some, but not much. Anyhow John, Waiting to see what you will write about it. Pass on my comments to the team, cause I was very serious about the personality thing.
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