Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:02:44 11/28/00
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On November 28, 2000 at 02:12:16, Daniel Chancey wrote: >Castle2000 Here are the items that are already in the patch: 1. Fixed the "Seconds per Move" bug, where the engine responds almost immediately, regardless of the number of seconds chosen. 2. Fixed a bug that would cause the mentor engine to restart thinking about a position if the Visual Thinking or Thinking Lines window was opened, even if the mentor engine had already been thinking about the position and sending its output to another window. 3. Two notable errors in the documentation were discovered: -- The Vector Board that is mentioned in the documentation does not exist in the program. -- The "Equal Time" time control also does not exist in the program. 4. Added a "Copy Contents" context menuitem to the "Thinking Lines" window. Choosing this item will copy all of the contents of that window to the Windows clipboard, formatted just like it is in the program. 5. Fixed a bug that would cause the "Positions" columns in the Thinking Lines window to display incorrectly after approximately 2.1 billion positions had been seen. 6. Fixed a crash that was caused by attempting to load a 16-color bitmap as a wallpaper in a room. 16-color bitmaps are not supported, but the program now tells you when you are attempting to load one as a wallpaper. 7. Fixed a bug that occurred on some machines in which Thematic and Simple piece movement sounds would only play if Chessmaster was NOT the active application. Now, these sounds play properly but NO piece movement sounds play if Chessmaster is not the active application. 8. Added an "Import PGN Settings" dialog that allows you to set the criteria by which games in a PGN file are imported into an opening book. Other items that are not yet fixed, but will be: 1. The problem with an XBoard engine offering a draw when its opponent is a computer and the draw offer not being sent properly. 2. The problem where fast-moving personalities (for example, Max and Lacey) might stop responding if they left book and then re-entered it via a transposition. Other bugs that MIGHT be fixed: 1. The tutorial crash that occurs when making an incorrect move in a question. This bug only occurs on Win2K. 2. The problem where the GUI only accepts coordinate notation from XBoard engines, and not other, unambiguous notations such as algebraic. 3. A crash involving using the menus that only occurs on Win2K. Other items that are suggestions from users for improvements to the game that MIGHT be added: 1. Human adjudication of a tournament or rated game (rather than waiting for checkmate or a legal draw). 2. Supporting whispering/kibitzing from XBoard engines. 3. Displaying "Mate in N" rather than 99.XX in the Thinking Lines window. 4. Secondary time controls. jm
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