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Subject: Re: ChessMaster 8000 time problems(John)

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 22:53:45 11/29/00

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On November 30, 2000 at 01:45:48, Didzis Cirulis wrote:

>On November 30, 2000 at 01:35:59, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On November 29, 2000 at 19:48:53, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>On November 29, 2000 at 19:34:46, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>
>>>>It seems that CM8K does not want to use it's alloted time when playing.  I have
>>>>played 3 games now at 40/1hour (2) and 60'+10'(1).  In the two 40/1hour games
>>>>ChessMaster had 1.5 hours left at the end of the game.  The 60' +10" game was
>>>>just as bad.  This should be looked at.
>>>>Jim
>>>
>>>This has been an issue with all previous versions.
>>>The CM never utilizes it's time as well as other programs.
>>>Jim if you think of a way that connects CM to another program
>>>automatically let me know. I have tried most everything including
>>>LAN and IP as well as all autoplayers.
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>
>>
>>Hello Sarah,
>>I guess John is not interested in this problem.  It probably means that Johan is
>>not interested either.  As far as playing CM8K automatically, I don't know of a
>>way.  About 2 years ago I played CM6K vs Fritz/Junior/Rebel in 12 game matches.
>>CM6K did OK.  Right after that the SSDF started running CM6K for rating
>>purposes.  If they don't do it for CM8K, I don't blame them.  It is an
>>interesting program but I don't have the time to run a lot of games manually
>>myself.  I'm going to switch to G/2hours tomorrow for a couple of games to see
>>if it manages it's time better.  Daniel sad it would so I have to try it.
>>Regards,
>>Jim
>
>This far only "solution" for the Cm time problem is to give it 150% of the time.
>Like 1h 30 minutes for a 1h game. The "Official" game time remains 1 hour. This
>is what I am testing now.
>
>Didzis

Hello Didzis,
This will probably work ok for most games but what do you do when CM8K oversteps
the time controls 1 time?  Then it's hard to blame the program for doing what
you told it to do. :-)
Jim



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