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

Author: John Merlino

Date: 22:22:25 11/27/00

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On November 27, 2000 at 22:47:48, James T. Walker wrote:

>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

This bug has been reported and already fixed and will be in the patch that is
probably going to be released within 6 weeks.

jm



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