Author: Thomas Lagershausen
Date: 08:01:14 02/17/01
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On February 17, 2001 at 09:57:48, William Penn wrote: >CM8000 - patch cosmetics > >My problems with the patch were substantially fixed by reinstalling CM8000 with >the Typical option. So it's now down to cosmetics... I also think that the CM 8000 is one of the big inovative chess-GUI´s.So it is normal that our thoughts are by some improvements. > >Help (F1) Contents: >There are minor formatting glitches in some of the subdialog boxes. For example >under Defining Your Room Environment, Designing Your Playing Area Layout, >clicking some of the green links shows an extra row of tabbed numbers at the >left. > >Visual Thinking: >needs a move indicator, white or black to move from the given position. That >little chessboard diagram has a really excellent design, very legible, so please >don't change it!? Except in a perfect world I would make it about 25% larger. I absolutly agree.Great looking but a little bit larger would be fine for our eyes.But one extra wish: When i load in the gameoption a second engine as for example white CM and black Gandalf.The visual thinking should now show the gandalfvariation by clicking the black button.At the moment it shows allways the CM-variation.Is this only on my computer? > >Chess Sets: >Most of them have poor legibility. I wish that exactly the same chessboard & >pieces as used in the Visual Thinking window were available as an option here, >in a larger size(s) of course. Yes, at the moment only the customerboard has this standardlook of chessboards. > >Thinking Lines: >Leave out the unnecessary spaces between the move number and the move. For >example rather than 33... Rf8 34. Nd2 Nf6 35. Ng3 Rxf7 it should be 33...Rf8 >34.Nd2 Nf6 35.Ng3 Rxf7. Also the g's descender is cut off in the bottom line in >the Current Move(s) column, so needs about 1/4th-of-a-line more vertical space. > >On a scale of 1 to 10 (1=bad 10=good), I would rate: >CM7000 = 1 or 2 >the original CM8000 release = 2 or 3 >after the 101 patch = 6 or 7 >So it's getting significantly better, but Pawlak's review is correct -- there's >still room for improvement. > >WP I like the CM 8000 very much.The engine is so interesting and together with Gandalf it´s great to analyze my games with both chessprogrames.A great team with a lot of idears for creative chess. Thomas Lagershausen
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