Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:45:10 02/14/01
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On February 14, 2001 at 00:16:43, William Penn wrote: >On February 13, 2001 at 23:33:50, William Penn wrote: > >>In Game Room, infinite time, with a human vs human game in progress: >> >>Even without any special user windows open, there is one king engine active as >>indicated by the Ctrl-Alt-Delete task window. There is no reason for it to be >>active in a human vs human game! I don't think it should be open. >> >>Then if the Visual Thinking window is opened (Chessmaster button selected), or >>the Thinking Lines window (Chessmaster box checked), a second king engine is >>activated. With two king engines running simultaneously, that will slow >>things down greatly. It makes use of those special windows impractical. >> >>Only one king engine was active with the original CM8k in this situation, so the >>patch has apparently introduced a new bug in that regard. >> >>I'm also now finding that with a user-defined personality as one of the players, >>three king engines may be active!? Again, I don't believe that is necessary. >>It didn't work that way in the original CM8k, so it is apparently a bug >>introduced by the patch. >> >>In summary, it seems that because too many engines are opened by the Thinking >>Lines and Visual Thinking windows, they slow things down too much and are >>impractical to use. >> >>WP > >I have now confirmed that to be a fact with a test. The patched version is >generally only about half the speed of the original version when analyzing in >the Game Room, human vs human, infinite time, with the Thinking Lines or Visual >Thinking windows open. For example a position which took 14 minutes to analyze >to 13-ply depth with the original CM8000, now takes 30 minutes to analyze to the >same 13-ply depth with the patch applied. > >Because that is my primary use for Chessmaster, I definitely can't use the patch >until/unless this problem is fixed. Therefore I am uninstalling it and will >await further developments. > >Good luck! >WP I am also unable to repeat this. Does it happen if you just go straight to the Game Room on startup, with an initial Human vs. Human infinite game? Or do you have to "do something" to make it happen. Verify that neither the Visual Thinking or Thinking Lines windows are up by going to the Windows menu and making sure that there isn't a checkmark (i.e. a pawn symbol) next to their menuitems. If there IS one, then the window IS up and is, for some reason, not visible. If they are NOT visible, then I can't imagine what's going on. But any information on how you are getting it to happen on your machine would be useful. jm
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