Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:23:45 05/30/00
This is the last call to USCF or CFC NON-PROVISIONAL rated players who would like to help the Chessmaster development team re-calibrate the ratings of their personalities. You must respond by Friday, June 2nd to be included in the test. Anyone who is interested should write to chessmaster@mindscape.com with a subject line that makes it obvious that you are interested in this offer, as well as your home address and daytime phone number (ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED!). You will then be contacted when the time comes to do the testing (early to mid June). Enjoy! jm ------------------------ Dear Chess Player: The Chessmaster team is currently in development on Chessmaster 8000, the next version of the Chessmaster computer chess game series. As many of you know, the product contains a large number of computer opponents. We like to make every effort to ensure that the ratings of these computer players are reasonably accurate. Chessmaster 8000 will be running with a new, more powerful chess engine and as such, we need to re-calibrate the ratings of our computer opponents. We are currently looking for NON-PROVISIONAL USCF rated players in the United States (or CFC rated players in Canada) to play against some of our computer opponents. The results of these games will help us to properly rate our computer personalities. Below are the details: · Players must have a CURRENT USCF or CFC rating of over 500 to participate (ratings will be verified at the respective websites). USCF players with non-provisional quick ratings will use their quick rating. · Participation will start in early to mid June. Results must be turned in no later than July 15th. · Participants will receive an abbreviated pre-Alpha version of Chessmaster 8000 for the purposes of testing. On release of Chessmaster 8000, each player who has turned in the required games will receive a boxed copy of the product. · Each participant will be required to play a series of six games each against five separate opponents, for a total of 30 games. Each game will use Fischer 5/10 time controls, so each game will take approximately 20-25 minutes. Total time commitment over the 6 weeks of participation should be about 10-12 hours per participant. · Participants must have a PC with CD-ROM, Pentium II or better (full set-up with sound card and mouse), with at least 32 MB RAM, running Windows 95/98 (NOT Windows 2000 or NT), and 100 MB hard drive space. · All participants will be required to sign a standard confidentiality agreement before they will receive their test copy of Chessmaster 8000. Quick turnaround time for this is essential, which is why we can only accept players in the United States or Canada. As mentioned above, all participants will receive a copy of Chessmaster 8000 later this year! Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from you.... The Chessmaster Team
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