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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