Author: John Merlino
Date: 18:39:50 05/04/01
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On May 04, 2001 at 16:15:24, Vine Smith wrote:
>Giving this program to Kramnik 3 months ahead of time will be to his
>disadvantage. First, he'll waste lots of time figuring out how to get it to work
>reasonably ("This isn't like Fritz at all! Where are the hash table settings?").
>Then, he'll probably make the mistake of opening an analysis window, maybe the
>mentor window too, and base his preparation on the engine running at 1/2 to 1/3
>speed due to the 2 or 3 engines spawned by this process, unbeknownst to him.
Maybe it's me, but if I have a game in which two computer personalities are
playing simultaneously, and neither of them is named "Chessmaster", and I have a
choice of checking the "White", "Black" and/or "Chessmaster" checkboxes, and I
click the "Chessmaster" checkbox, what would you expect would happen? If you
happen to check all three, and you see PV output for White, Black and
"Chessmaster", do you really believe that all of that is (or should be)coming
from one engine?
The "Mentor" window does not use an engine. The ONLY things that can spawn the
(apparently shocking) third "mentor" engine instance are:
a) Checking the "Chessmaster" checkbox in the Thinking Lines window (this
checkbox will be disabled if the Chessmaster personality is one of the
personalities in the game).
b) Opening the Visual Thinking window and selecting the "Chessmaster"
radiobutton (ditto with the disabling mentioned above).
c) Asking for advice (which you can only do if it is a human's turn to move --
and if you're playing against a personality other than Chessmaster, what should
happen? Should all of the data for the engine instance of the personality you
are playing against be wiped out in favor of your advice request? Or should a
brief second engine instance, running the Chessmaster personality, be spawned to
fulfill that request, not disturbing any of your opponent engine's data?).
d) Requesting Game Analysis (this is intended to be analysis of a game that has
been completed, i.e. no longer in progress, so it will shut down all other
active engines as long as the analysis is taking place so the analysis engine
can get the most out of the CPU that it can).
e) Doing a Solve for Mate (similar to c)
f) Asking for a "Quick Hint" (also similar to c -- but VERY brief, as the name
says)
As for the hash table settings -- RTM, pg. 19. Since when does every program
have to work like Fritz? I just got Fritz 6 a couple of days ago, and I am so
far impressed with it (as you might expect). But I would guess that the
interface would be a fair bit daunting for anyone with computerphobia (is that
one word?). Don't worry, I'll get around to RTM soon enough.... ;-)
In all honesty and not trying to be acidic (but probably failing miserably) --
what's the big mystery?
jm
p.s. I'm probably going to regret posting this....
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