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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