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Subject: Re: What is the consensus of "The King" without the CM GUI?

Author: Mike S.

Date: 15:30:06 07/02/01

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On July 02, 2001 at 18:07:25, Scott Woods wrote:

>My experience is that "The King" plays a lot better without the CM GUI.
>
>As a lot of people were interested in how to import into Fritz, Shredder etc.
>
>Question:  What is the view on "The King" engine without the CM GUI.

I must admit that I cannot answer your question, because I do not use The King
outside of the CM GUI. But recently, I was into a discussion about The King
being slower in it's own (CM) GUI - and it turned out, that the reason was the
GUI setup (in other words, which options were chosen in Chessmaster).

I think this has been discussed here before, but some time ago.

If (a) the "Chessmaster" checkbox in the Thinking lines window is *not* checked
(only white or black), and (b) the "Visual Thinking" windows is *not* used, then
The King's performance must be at least equal than in other GUIs.

The options (a), and also (b) if I'm not wrong, would start a TheKing.exe task
of their own, which runs parallel to the engine which plays the game, slowing it
down a lot (the SSDF had this problem too and they had to restart their CM8K
test run because of that).

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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