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

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 22:46:03 11/16/00

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On November 17, 2000 at 01:11:30, John Merlino wrote:

>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! ;-)

I haven't commented on the gui mainly because it is obviously one of the better
guis around.  Nice graphics, custumizeable etc.  My only complaint about the gui
is it is a bit slow and can steal some cpu power when a human is making his
moves and stuff...hard to win a 3 0 game if it takes 1 second for to move.. :)



JW





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