Author: William Penn
Date: 23:02:08 01/17/01
CM 8000 - How to turn THE KING engine on/off First of all, the Pause operation has no effect on THE KING engine. So it's useless for purposes of turning it on/off. But there's another way... When CM8000 is first started and you goto the Game Room, THE KING engine is running. It runs even with no boxes checked in the Thinking Lines window, and you can't turn it off by checking/unchecking the boxes in the Thinking Lines window. Then, if you press Ctrl-G (Set Up Game), THE KING engine stops. To exit from the Set Up Game window, there are two choices: OK or Cancel. If you press OK, THE KING engine starts running again. But if you press Cancel, THE KING engine remains stopped -- and thereafter you can check/uncheck the Chessmaster box in the Thinking Lines window to turn THE KING engine on/off! I believe that's how it should properly work at startup, and it shouldn't be necessary to use the intermediate Ctrl-G/Cancel operation to initialize things. I had to use a separate utility (WinTop) to determine this. It would be useful to have such an indicator built into CM8000 to constantly show user when an engine(s) is on/off, such as "engine lights". Otherwise one or more engines can be running without user's knowledge, and greatly slowing down the system. WP
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