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Subject: Re: What happened to the final CM8K patch? (NT)

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 03:16:41 05/24/01

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On May 23, 2001 at 13:49:51, John Merlino wrote:

>Well, you're correct about WinBoard, and I think your argument is valid.
>Therefore, I have created a full GUI implementation of "pondering", in which
>each XBoard personality has a field in which you can tell CM whether to send
>"hard" or "hard/easy" after each "new".

Excellent news. That resolves a lot of bother and confusion when setting up
engines. Not mentioning creating tables where information about
ponder/non-ponder by default, possible hacks and similar things are mentioned.

>This, of course, is not exactly reverse compatible. What is going to happen is
>that, with all previously imported engines, EASY will be the default (because
>that field in the personality structure was set to zero -- meaning
>pondering=off). This will all be explained in the ReadMe for the patch, so
>hopefully people will read it!

No problem IMO for users even slightly experienced with the use of WinBoard
engines. Even though it's opposite of new Chessmaster personalities IIRC.

>The testers are going to kill me, though.... Thanks for getting me into trouble.
>;-)

The trouble is worth it, trust me ;-).

Mogens.



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