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

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 10:34:32 11/28/00

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On November 28, 2000 at 01:22:25, John Merlino wrote:

>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


Hmm want some free testing on the patch?  I bet if you released it early
quitetly here, some of the chessmaster freaks here would test it and report
back.  :)



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