Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:16:35 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 knew something was wrong.
Christophe
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