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Subject: Re: Some observations re CM8000 user-defined personalities

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:04:18 12/02/00

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On December 02, 2000 at 07:27:41, James wrote:

>On December 01, 2000 at 19:34:54, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On December 01, 2000 at 17:44:26, James wrote:
>>
>>>On the changing values of a personality: think u will find it not necessary to
>>>restart the program, but is necessary to select another pesonality in a game
>>>situation, then reselect the altered personality, the changes will be
>>>functioning then.  This has been true since cm6k, apparently, changing a
>>>personality, just rewrites the change to disk, it it is already in the game, the
>>>altreraations do not affect the personality in ram.
>>
>>Sorry, what I wrote was confusing. When I said that after you change a
>>personality that "you will need to restart the game", what I meant was the chess
>>GAME and not the Chessmaster PROGRAM.
>>
>>My apologies for the confusion,
>>
>>jm
>er... i stay confused a lot anyway... duh.. but even restarting the game is not
>necessary.. simply select another personality, exit to game in progress, then
>reselect the modified personality < wil then have the changes effected>
>Clear as mud ? :).. the cm55 personalities could be changed and effective
>immediately without all of that dancing.. much prefered its game setup format.
>jy

You're correct. I tend to prefer starting a new game from scratch when I modify
a personality, because I would (once again) get confused if I switched
personalities in the middle of a game.

jm




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