Author: John Merlino
Date: 09:50:19 01/18/01
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On January 18, 2001 at 02:02:08, William Penn wrote: >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 There are only two reasons that The King engine would be running immediately after entering the Game Room for the first time: 1) The Visual Thinking window is open. This starts a mentor engine, just like checking the "Chessmaster" checkbox in the Thinking Lines window (although, if BOTH the checkbox and the Visual Thinking window are open, they use the same instance of the mentor engine). 2) One of the players in the game that was in the Game Room when you last quit Chessmaster was a computer player. Chessmaster saves the players in each room upon exiting, and they are restored when you start up Chessmaster again. If one of those players is a computer player (Chessmaster personality or imported engine), then its corresponding engine is automatically started up, ready to play the game. jm
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