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Subject: Re: A questionarre for all Chessmaster users

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 23:50:01 10/22/01

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On October 22, 2001 at 18:01:26, John Merlino wrote:

>On October 22, 2001 at 15:51:39, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>>10) Have you ever gone to the Classroom? If so, what portions of the curriculum
>>>have you COMPLETED? (to the best of your recollection -- please don't bother to
>>>take the time to look unless you really want to.... ;-)
>>
>>I think I have completed them all ( even the ones about piece movements ;-)) .
>>Also I have looked at all of Josh's game and tried all the tests - guess I am
>>not normal ( btw I think you could fix some bugs there sometimes ).
>
>Which bugs, specifically, are you talking about?

Mostly minor quirks. From memory there were most mistakes in the Seirawan
lessons ( pieces not showing up etc) . I only mentioned them as everyone who
tried some sections should have realized them - is this news ? The puzzle in the
beginning is sometimes quite amusing - I especially like "Find the pin" : the
most useless moves - I needed quite some time to figure out what a pin is for
CM.


>
>>>12) Do you wish that there were more or less chess sets and boards to choose
>>>from?
>>
>>Well. I think you should think a little about your default layouts. I think
>>nearly everyone uses the custom board as it's the only "normal" and prettiest
>>one. As long as you keep the "custom board" I don't really care. Also I have
>>trained a lot with the "dog's board" from time to time against low rated
>>personalities . It's a good test for blind chess IMHO.

Replace custom board with 2-D-maple in this text.
>
>Now THAT was funny!
>
Well, it was the simple truth :).

Regards,
pete




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