Author: Stephen A. Boak
Date: 00:12:34 02/16/01
After work I loaded a human-human game I had previously analyzed on CM8000 (Game Analysis) and went to a critical game point. I opened Thinking Lines, checked Chessmaster, watched some analysis lines and scores scroll by, minimized Chessmaster, turned off the monitor, then went out for several hours. When I returned and went to look at Thinking Lines, I expected to find a relatively deep ply line and score. I wanted to see what kind of ply depth had been reached, and whether the best line of play was same or different from the prior Game Analysis I had run at 12 min per move. Instead, I found the Thinking Lines restarted thinking at ply 1 (or so--it scrolls so fast) when I turned on the monitor and restored Chessmaster to full screen size. I tested a bit and used Task Info to verify that the King engine process would actually stop unexpectedly under these circumstances. It would restart thinking at initially low ply levels when Chessmaster was restored and Thinking Lines became visible again. Thus I couldn't try to run continuous analysis as long as I'd hoped. Any comments on this problem and any potential solution?
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