Author: James T. Walker
Date: 07:00:34 02/27/01
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On February 26, 2001 at 17:10:27, Chessfun wrote: >On February 26, 2001 at 16:34:30, James T. Walker wrote: > >>Here are 10 games played over the weekend & this morning on 2 Athlon 900 Mhz >>Thunderbird cpu machines using auto232. CM8K won the match 7-3. I'm beginning >>to suspect the patch also helped the "King" engine. Fritz used 128 M hash and >>CM8K used 32Meg. > >Hi Jim, > you once wrote regarding autoplaying the CM. > >"It is very simple. You need to download the "CB_server_ap232.zip" file. After >you unzip it you copy the "winboard232b.exe" file to the Chessmaster directory. >Then it's a simple matter of installing it like a winboard engine. This just >requires you to go to the "Game" menu then "Import xboard Engine" and fill in >the blanks. It is not without problems though. For some reason when the >opponent promotes a pawn CM8K does not get it. From that point on I have to >finish the game manually. This is usually in the ending and almost finished >anyway. When CM8K promotes a pawn there is no problem. I haven't set up a >"Tournament" yet to see if it will continue games automaticall because of the >pawn promotion problem. It requires monitoring anyway. Hope this will all be >fixed in the patch. >Jim" > >I tried this and it worked...thanks. The problem with pawn promotion of the >opponent is this still there? or fixed by the patch? With my current tourney >running I have installed the patch but not as yet played any games. > >Sarah. Hello Sarah, The underpromotion is a problem with the auto232 adapter not Chessmaster I think. There is a version of the auto232 program for Chessmaster which will do the promotion but is not readily available. It is by Chrilly Donninger and as far as I know he has passed it to only a few people with the understanding it is not to be passed along so good luck in getting it. I understand that with some kind of "macro" program you can set up a macro to handle all the messages at the end of a game and start a new one automatically but I don't know how. I have to start each game manually. It still does not work very well with some programs like Chesspartner 5 / Shredder 5. Chesspartner will only play with white pieces I think and Shredder 5 sometimes wants to play by itself when the game is started or it's not sure which side it is playing. Sometimes I have to restart the game several times withe Shredder 5 to get it going. I guess it was designed to work best with Chessbase programs. Jim
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