Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:37:26 04/11/01
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On April 11, 2001 at 15:19:53, Hans Christian Lykke wrote: >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) Many MANY thanks! You are very kind. jm p.s. Now Deep Fritz has something to worry about.... ;-)
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