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Subject: Re: CM8000 replying immediately at tournement level,even when out of book

Author: Didzis Cirulis

Date: 11:18:28 01/19/01

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On January 19, 2001 at 11:53:15, John Merlino wrote:

>On January 18, 2001 at 23:08:56, Kevin Harrison wrote:
>
>>When I attempted to  play CM8000 at the tournement rate of 40 in 120 it played
>>the whole game responding immediately to my moves even when it was out of book
>>knowledge.The level of play even at blitz speed was appaling.In checking the
>>standard of play of the other levels it was hard to describe it as barely more
>>than random moves.I retuned to the chess shop and found that the whole
>>consignment is behaving the same.I am running it on a P3 750 Windows 98Are there
>>any solutions to this problem.I am an I.M. in Correspondence Chess and a
>>professional chess coach and would not recommend it to my students.I have all
>>the previous versions of CM and I am quite happy with them.Thanks in advance
>>Kevin Harrison
>
>Here we go again... <sigh> Firstly, the moves/minutes and seconds per move time
>controls are faulty. If you have been using ONLY those time controls, then try a
>game with a G/60 time control. If Chessmaster STILL moves instantly, all the way
>through the game, then read on; otherwise, wait for the patch, which should be
>released in 2-3 weeks.
>
>Only one other person has reported this problem (not counting Tina Long's recent
>post): Fernando Villegas. After much working with Fernando, we were not able to
>find the cause of the problem. Basically, I need to find out what, if anything,
>is in common between your machine and his. So, if you could start a private
>e-mail thread with him (and Tina), and report to me anything you find, it would
>be greatly appreciated.
>
>jm

John,

Please remember my one: CM 8000 starting to move instantly after the upgrade to
Windows 2K Professional. It worked fine in W98.

Didzis



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