Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 21:44:04 11/15/00
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On November 15, 2000 at 23:23:16, John Merlino wrote: >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 What a shame though... ;) It would have been cool if it WAS smp capable. :) JW
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