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Subject: Re: CM8000 - VIsual Thinking window

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:50:50 12/04/00

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On December 04, 2000 at 02:39:32, William Penn wrote:

>The Visual Thinking window does not work in any useful way in CM8000. In CM6000
>it shows the position after the last complete line of analysis (except it stops
>at pawn promotions) listed in the Think Lines window. I found that a very useful
>feature.  However in CM8000 the Visual Thinking position does not correspond to
>any displayed line of analysis (list of moves).  It isn't coordinated with the
>lines of analysis shown in the Think Lines window.  For example if the last
>completed line of analysis was for 9 ply depth in the Think Lines window, Visual
>Thinking should display the position at the end of that sequence of moves.  But
>it doesn't. Instead it apparently displays random positions from the current 10
>ply calculation in progress, although I'm not sure. In any case, whatever it is
>displaying is apparently totally worthless because it does not correspond to any
>printed/displayed list of moves! That's an important feature to me, and I'm very
>disappointed that it doesn't work right.
>WP

I'll have the development team look into it. It is SUPPOSED to display the
position that would be arrived at the end of the engine's current PV (whether or
not it is being displayed in the Thinking Lines window).

jm



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