Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:07:53 12/29/00
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On December 29, 2000 at 00:30:35, r.c. richards wrote: >On December 28, 2000 at 20:19:27, alfred palang wrote: > >>Chessmaster 8000 is a vast improvement over the other versions. It has a cool >>feeling when playing with it. I have nothing but praise for this wonderful >>program. There are still lots of room for improvement, though. Maybe a bigger >>book someday. > >I don't know if it's better or not, John, but for me, it's just as boring to >play blitz with as 6000, which is really boring when you compare it with Gambit >Tiger. > >What I really wish you could do is to get your lower rated players (2000 to 1400 >specifically) to play consistently at the level they're supposed to play at. I >mean, you must know better than I do that your players in those rankings will >make a real dumbass move and then three grandmaster moves. Your 1400 and 1500 >players make moves sometimes that 1400 and 1500 players don't make. > >And having to leave the cd in the cd-rom--that's a bunch of crap. By the way, >at this moment Chessmaster 8000 is posted on one of the cd-image groups on the >usenet--no, I didn't post it and, no, I didn't download it there--I bought it >and registered it. Nimzo 8 was there a week or so ago. It's probably good for >sales in the long run that some of this stuff gets pirated and passed around. I >don't know. > >But as far as CM8000, you definitely got the best interface, best boards, etc. > >And oh yeah, I sure appreciate you being here. You answer questions a lot >better than CM tech support, who I had to call a couple years ago. Here's my >question: > >One thing I'd like to be able to do is make the board bigger on this new 19 inch >screen I got. I haven't figured out if that can be done yet. > > >rc All of the "bitmap" boards are fixed in size, so they cannot be made larger. The only sizeable board is the "Custom Board", which you can make any size you like. jm
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