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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 8000 Versus Fritz. 6

Author: Scott Woods

Date: 12:03:44 01/19/01

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On January 19, 2001 at 14:38:53, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>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" :-)



No - what I mean is....

I am happy to have 1 PC running the full CM8000 product somehow communicating to
another PC running Fritz 6.

I got 2 PC's,  I got CM8000 and I got Fritz 6 - I just want them to play chess
together.

Thanks



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