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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 8000 Versus Fritz. 6

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 11:38:53 01/19/01

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On January 19, 2001 at 14:33:39, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>On January 19, 2001 at 12:56:09, Scott Woods wrote:
>
>>I am quite happy to have CM8000 running and Fritz6 running on
>>
>>a/ The same machine
>>b/ Two machines.
>>
>>I just want to be able to have both sets of software playing each other.
>>
>>It's a pain having to move the pieces manually
>>
>>Thanks
>>Scott
>
>I dont know what policy they have at the chessmaster team regarding
>the security of the king not running outside the CM8 gui, but to me
>it seems illogical not to make this possible, they would get much more
>results against other commercial programs and they would help pave the way
>for other programs to implement the same feature, and if they are worried
>about people trading Engines, they could implement that the cd should be in the
>cdrom drive in order to run the engine (which as i understand it will be the
>case anyway with the new patch)
>Dont get me wrong i love the CM products and enjoy all of their features, and
>whatever new version that comes out i would buy faster than a duck on a june
>buck, however i have often found myself being frustrated that i am not
>able to run CM8 outside the CM8 gui, and thereby test the king against my other
>favorite programs. If they at the CM8 team could come up with a way to do
>the above mentioned, i would like to know if they would consider it?
>
>Regards
>Jonas Cohonas

Sorry that would be "june BUG" :-)



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