Author: Detlef Pordzik
Date: 15:39:29 11/28/97
This is dedicated towards the gentlemen C.Whittington + T.Czub, who often post here. So, I hope, I can get reasonable answers to provide serious dissappointments or upcoming anger. Of course, this is not to be understood as an insult, but as a problem of a user with the / their product. So, on the main advertising page of CS Tal there is an announcement, that the program supports " all known PC boards ". " Well " - I thought, " that's a supposal " - because I read in the chess related NG's absolute opposite statements. To my big surprize I saw CS Tal yesterday at a mass market store - and to my even bigger surprise, a very clear + correct translation in German, what was originally written in the homepage of Oxfords - on the back of the box : "...unterstützt alle, an den PC anschliessbaren PC Bretter...." - well, this is no suggestion, no eventuality, but a clear described feature on a sealed box - I can / must / and have the legal right to rely on this. To make it short : I found no such possibility - if, it must really be hidden good ! But, before setting up complaining postings - I invested quite some money + phoned Oxford this afternoon. - A friendly gent gave me an advice to use an undocumented command line at he prompt : chess_/? Well, this showed some commands., like "vesa" - "nohash" (??)- "autot" "saitek" ( ha ?? ) and some more. Result : none. So, where + how can I get my TASC board II working please, sirs ? Next : I owe a PC with 128 Megs of RAM, under normal DOS 6.2 configuration, R9 for instance, grabs 60 Megs. CS Tal announces proudly having detected 32 Megs (?!?) - available 17, useable for hash ( not pawn hash ) 8 ( e i g h t ) Megs used in total. I downloaded the so called " paris.zip " from the homepage, where Mr. Whittington writes in a 2 k text file, that the new chess.exe should be used after renaming the old one. This now would solve several problems : some kind of draw error - sawn in Paris and : " .....able to use m o r e hash tables..." very good - how + where can I get proof of this ?? Because : the GUI, concerning the hash setings ( of course ) isn't corrected - still detects -silly enough - 32 Megs etc..... I even tried the " x " mode to give the program each + every possible choice - NOTHING changed, of course - exept one detail : the supposed European ELO suggestion ( 107 % of P -Pro 200 ) before stated as 2.442 ELO + now, after implementing the new .exe, detects a possibility of.......2.443 ELO......an improvment...... Allright - I again phoned Oxford, the gent still reacted friendly + kinda helpless, because of his doc-advice not working. But he asked "....somebody, working on the Windows version of the product. This one told him - please NOT to give CS Tal more hash - it would DECREASE the strenght of the program..." ( THIS is really a hit for an answer for me ) Orininal tone. So, gentlemen : how much hash can I use with your " paris.exe " - where can I do the changes concerning this ?? I suppose - ONLY in the .ini - but I won't touch this without advice. To ask it as friendly as possible : how come, that a RELEASE version promises things, that simply are not held, i.e. are not available ? -This is just the same as anouncing a database of 400.000 games included + nothing in at all.....- how come, a product of 1997, after so many years of hard work - as I suggest - comes out with such irritating, poor possibilities to detect correct the amount of available hash ? To make it clear : after this clear cheating of CM 5.000, announcing nearly the same - I reacted quite upset - and I'm not willing to spend my money on a program that allready offers me lies on the coverage. Beside this - this affects German law ( unlauterer Wettbewerb, BGB ). But - I want to support the increase of this new idea.... + so I ask for a quick solution, please. Kind regards ELVIS elvis@owl-online.de
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