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Subject: Re: CM8000 hangs sometimes when playing my Winboard engine.

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 19:47:48 11/27/00

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On November 27, 2000 at 21:46:39, John Merlino wrote:

>On November 27, 2000 at 21:16:17, Larry Griffiths wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have been playing CM8000 personalitys against my Winboard engine (DeepTrouble)
>>and have played several games to a draw or checkmate.
>>Sometimes several moves into a game, CM8000 starts to say a move and then goes
>>off into a loop.  My engine is playing white and it looks like it is my engines
>>turn to move.  The chess clocks do not count off any time.
>>
>>I am running Windows 2000 with SP1 applied.  I have a SBLive sound card and a
>>Voodoo 5500 video card.  I am running dual-pentium III 550 processors.  My
>>machine has 512meg of ram.
>>
>>Anybody else experienced this?
>>
>>Larry Griffiths
>
>Two possible problems here:
>
>1) You're running Windows 2000, which is not officially supported.
>2) It sounds like you're using Spoken Move Announcements. Try switching to any
>of the other piece movement sound options (no sound being the least likely to
>cause problems, obviously).
>
>Also, if you are not doing it already, check to see what the input and output to
>your engine is via the XBoard Engine Monitor windows (or something like
>that...can't remember the exact name).
>
>jm

Hello John,
Since you mentioned the sound I would like to report a problem.  I get no sound
with the moves except the spoken move announcements.  If I select "Thematic" or
"Simple" I get no sound at all.  Any suggestions?
Jim



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