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Subject: Re: Chessmaster caught with his hand in the cookie bin

Author: John Merlino

Date: 22:11:30 11/16/00

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On November 17, 2000 at 00:40:13, john watson wrote:

>Gandalf's pondering was off, I checked it.
>I'll run another round with ponder on.
>The King.exe (Oct 18,123Kb) works without a hitch in Winboard and Chessbase Gui
>but there its performance is much weaker.
>
>The Chessmaster Gui displayed a splash box saying: Chessmaster Yes  No
>I clicked Yes and Chessmaster started the next game.
>Afterwards on the game list that game was a draw.
>
>Chessmaster's graphics are superb, though.

First of all, the performance is much weaker outside the CM GUI by design. That
is the security that is implemented to "prevent" use of The King outside
Chessmaster. Basically, it just searches 1K positions and returns a move, almost
immediately, and almost certainly a very poor move.

But, I'm still a bit confused about your "splash box" that says "Yes No". What
brought up this box? What was going on at the time? The USER can bring up a
dialog by pressing CTRL+N (the same as the "New Game" menuitem, which brings up
the Game Settings dialog). Then you can just press OK and a new game will start
with the same settings as the previous game (assuming that you didn't change any
game settings). Is that what you're referring to?

jm

p.s. Finally a vote in favor of the graphics from somebody on this board.
Hooray! ;-)



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