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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