Author: John Merlino
Date: 20:23:16 11/15/00
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On November 15, 2000 at 20:53:50, Jason Williamson wrote: >On November 15, 2000 at 15:40:20, John Merlino wrote: > >>On November 15, 2000 at 13:46:22, Jason Williamson wrote: >> >>>On November 15, 2000 at 13:32:22, John Merlino wrote: >>> >>>>On November 15, 2000 at 03:07:44, Jason Williamson wrote: >>>> >>>>>I am noticing that if the xboard engine requires a command line passed, the >>>>>Chessmaster Gui still doesn't pass the command line regardless if it is in the >>>>>setup for the xboard engine. >>>>> >>>>>JW >>>> >>>>Can you give examples (i.e. both the engine in question and the command line you >>>>are attempting to pass)? I can pass them on to the development team. >>>> >>>>jm >>> >>>Actually, EVERY engine I tried that required a command line to work didn't get >>>the command line sent. For example, bringer needs the commandline /winboard to >>>work yet never recives it. >>> >>>Oh, is The King unoffically SMP capable? I noticed at when it is the only >>>engine running under win2k with my dual celeron that it has two processes both >>>chewing up the cpus to the max. Pretty cool if that is true. >>> >>> >>>JW >> >>Is it "The King.exe" that is using both CPUs? Does Chessmaster.EXE also use both >>CPUs? The development team has contacted Johan and is looking into it. I'll let >>you know what he says, but it could take a while to hear back from him. >> >>No testing of any kind was done on multi-CPU machines. >> >>jm > >Unless I missed something (like some sort of analsyse window) its running smp. >The king has two processes, not Chessmaster.exe. > >JW I think I know what's happening here. Not only does a PLAYING engine launch a copy of The King, but also there is a MENTOR engine that can be launched in any number of circumstances (opening either the Thinking Lines or the Visual Thinking windows, using Solve for Mate, getting advice, analyzing a game, etc.). This is probably what you have seen. jm
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