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Subject: Re: ChessMaster 8000 time problems(John)

Author: Chessfun

Date: 21:32:12 11/30/00

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On November 30, 2000 at 21:24:58, 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,
>By the way, the comment about previous versions not using their time is not
>exactly correct either.  I played 3 matchs with CM6K vs Fritz/Junior/Rebel10 at
>40/60 and CM6K used it's time reasonably well especially compared to CM8K.  It
>never ran down to "0" but it did use more than 15 minutes for the whole game.
>In fact using 45-50 minutes was common for the first 40 moves.  I don't own CM7K
>so can't comment on it.
>Jim


Comparative to the CM8K you may be right as it's time control is much worse.
The CM6K I always found to use about 50% of it's allotted time compared to it's
opponents. That was after playing manual games of one hour in my Easter Tourney.

CM8K clearly something is wrong. It's time usage indicates a bug. And per John's
post further down it would appear they agree, at least on some.

Sarah.







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