Author: John Merlino
Date: 16:25:31 12/12/00
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On December 12, 2000 at 00:47:57, Chessfun wrote: >On December 11, 2000 at 21:45:28, John Merlino wrote: > >>Thankfully, everybody at this website is (relatively) technologically savvy. >>However, some of the e-mails that the Chessmaster team gets from VERY typical >>users are quite amusing, so I thought I'd share some of them with you. >> >>Enjoy! >> >>------------- >>I recently purchased the Chessmaster 7000 game. While playing a few >>games in the game room, I would almost have my opponent beat when the >>game would declare a stalemate. I had most of my pcs. on the board while >>my opponent was down to a few pawns and king. I was clearly on my way to >>victory before game was stopped. Why is this? Game not worth playing >>with this stalemate feature. Please help. >>------------- >>I've got a couple of questions pertaining to your Chessmaster 5500. It is a >>dull-witted Chess"master" indeed who sacrifices his own Queen each & every >>opportunity of every scenario just to get the opponent's queen. Secondly, >>there does not seem to be a way to toggle off the "en passant" maneuver -- >>which is a game option. Is there any way to toggle off the "en passant" >>option? >>------------- >>And... my favorite.... >> >>THE TRUE CHESS MASTERS ARE MOORS AND THEY INTRODUCED THE GAME WHEN THEY CAME >>INTO EUROPE. WHY DO YOU HAVE THIS PICTURE OF THIS HOMELESS LOOKING MAN ON >>THE COVER. IT'S JUST LIKE LOOKING AT A BOX OF KING VITAMIN CEREAL --- DOES >>HE LOOK HEALTHY? AND WHAT MAKES THIS MAN LOOK LIKE A CHESS MASTER WHEN HE'S >>NOT EVEN WORTHY OF THE TITLE. PEACE & MAY THE TRUE FATHER OF CREATION FIND >>YOU WORTHY OF A BLESSING. >> >>The first two are VERY common ones, and some of these accuse the program of >>cheating! >> >>Hope I made a few of you laugh.... >> >>jm > >John these are good !! >I like the 2nd one the best, you must have some more to share?. > >Sarah. Actually, most of the rest are variations on one of the above themes. Usually it's people claiming that Chessmaster cheated when it captured en passant, or the stalemate problem above. I did find another one: --------- > > Hate to tell you this, but in tournament mode you can castle through > > check. Hope your next patch will fix this mistake. --------- So, I got him to send me a saved game where this "bug" supposedly occurred. In it, there was a White Bishop on f4 and Black castled long. He apparently believed that if the rook could be captured on any square that it traveled through during the castle, then castling was not legal. It took about 5 e-mails to convince him of this. Another person swore that he had heard of the term "false checkmate" and wanted the official explanation of it put into the game. I've never heard of it; have any of you? And there's always the people who have no technical vocabulary whatsoever, so trying to get them to describe their problem relatively accurately can be difficult at best -- "The little picture of the chess board looks funny", or "I get a blue and white screen with some weird text on it". Other common complaints are people who are upset that Chessmaster 5500 (or earlier) doesn't support Windows 2000 or 98, completely forgetting the fact that those versions came out before the Windows versions. Then they complain that there isn't a patch for every bug created by every new platform, and expect the latest version mailed out to them as compensation for the "buggy" 5-year old program that they just bought at Target for $9.95. And, of course, the one that makes me glad to be alive: "How do I play a game?" jm
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