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Subject: Re: Further Chessmaster 8000 problems for you fellows:

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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