Author: Hans Christian Lykke
Date: 12:19:53 04/11/01
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On April 11, 2001 at 14:36:17, John Merlino wrote: >After a couple of e-mails between myself, Johan and Hans Lykke, we have >determined that, solely because of a misunderstanding, the SSDF's testing of >Chessmaster 8000 has been faulty. The shortest explanation is that CM8000 has >only been getting about half of the CPU. The reason for this is simple to >understand if you have seen CM8000's Thinking Lines window, but may not be very >clear if you have not. > >The Thinking Lines window has three checkboxes: White, Black and Chessmaster. >Clicking on White or Black will allow you to see the analysis of the >corresponding engines playing the game. Clicking on the Chessmaster checkbox >will launch a NEW version of the engine, running the DEFAULT Chessmaster >personality, so you can see Chessmaster's analysis of the current position as >well. > >However, due to misunderstandings and (yet again) some less-than-stellar and >more-than-confusing text in the manual, Hans had checked the "Chessmaster" >checkbox, rather than the appropriate "White" or "Black" checkbox, to view the >in-game analysis. Since the SSDF is NOT using the default personality (all they >changed was increasing the hash table size to 32MB), checking the Chessmaster >checkbox launced an ADDITIONAL engine, meaning that two engines were running >simultaneously, and the engine that was actually playing the game was getting >less than 50% of the CPU. > >We apologise to all members of the SSDF for the confusion and inconvenience, and >hope that they will be understanding and start testing Chessmaster 8000 over >again from the beginning. If not, then, oh well.... that's the breaks. > >If they DO start testing over again, then I'm sure that you'll all be much more >pleased with the results.... > >Once again, our deepest and most sincere apologies to Hans (who has already >tested CM8000 in almost 50 games), and all of the Chessmaster fans. > >jm > >p.s. Hans, if you would like to reply to this e-mail with your comments, it >would be greatly appreciated.... I have started (nearly) all over again. I think I have a few valid games played in the Tournament mode. Venlig hilsen Hans Christian Lykke (SSDF)
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