Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:25:19 01/19/01
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On January 19, 2001 at 14:18:32, Didzis Cirulis wrote: >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 Windows 2000 does not appear to be the problem, because it is happening on both Win98 and Windows 2000 machines (as evidenced by Kevin Harrison's post, as he is running Win98). Of course, if you want to get in on the dialog, then please don't hesitate to start sending e-mails to the other folks involved.... jm
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