Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 10:44:14 10/23/01
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On October 22, 2001 at 15:14:33, John Merlino wrote: >In deciding what sort of additions and modifications to make to the next version >of Chessmaster, I thought it might be a good idea to ask the users on this board >(who are a decent representation of the "computer chess enthusiast" community) a >few questions. These questions are in no particular order.... > >Please feel free to either answer them here, or via an e-mail to >jmerlino@ubisoft.com. > >1) Which ratings ranges of personalities do you use or play against? > >2) Do you play Rated Games in the Tournament Room? > >3) Do you create tournaments in the Tournament Room? If so, do you include human >users (like yourself) in these tournaments? > >4) Do you think there should be more "human" personalities, less "human" >personalities, or do you think the number of these personalities is just right? > >5) Do you wish that you were able to create larger tournaments (i.e. more than 8 >players in a round-robin tournament, or more than 32 players in a Swiss >tournament)? If so, how many would you like to include in these types of >tournaments? > >6) Have you ever gone to the Library? > >7) Have you ever used the Opening Book Editor? If so, have you ever wished that >you could create books with more than 64K moves in them? > >8) Do you play chess online? If so, have you ever used Chessmaster (any version) >to play chess online? > >9) Do you own Chessbase (any version)? > >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.... ;-) > >11) Have you ever imported an XBoard compatible engine into Chessmaster? If so, >what did you think of the import process and the overall XBoard support? > >12) Do you wish that there were more or less chess sets and boards to choose >from? > >13) Have you ever changed the "wallpaper" for any room? > >14) What setting do you use for piece movement sounds (Spoken Move >Announcements, Thematic Sounds, Simple Sounds or No Sound)? > >15) Does it bother you that Chessmaster 8000 requires the CD at all times? If >so, how much (on a scale of 1 to 5, where 5 is you are VERY bothered)? > >16) Have you ever created a personality? > >17) Do you think there are too many personality variables, not enough variables, >or just the right amount of variables? > >18) If you think there should be more personality variables, what would you >suggest? > >19) If you owned Chessmaster 6000/5500/5000, what do you think of the interface >change for Chessmaster 7000/8000 (the "room metaphor")? > >20) What resolution do you use on your monitor? > >21) What windows do you REGULARLY have open in the Game Room? > >22) Do you think there are too many "Windows" available in the Game Room? > >23) What chess set/board combination do you prefer to use? > >24) Do you wish that there were larger chess sets/boards included in the game? >How about smaller chess sets/boards? > >25) If you have an official chess rating, what is it? If you do NOT have an >official chess rating but play a lot of chess, what do you estimate your rating >to be? > >The more answers I get, the more useful this will be. I'd like to get at least >50 responses, so tell your friends.... > >Many thanks for your time! > >jm For the human personeletys the order is not corectly I have seen beter performance of lower rated personeletys then from higher What about my rating you may gues it I used too play with chessmaster online The pitty of online games that you always get a group who is terorising the rest And of course cheating without admiting it The point is simply that firewalls don't work to well in aplications outside IE But they are working on this Well the biggest problem from chessmaster indeed the problem of the book editor I tried to make a new book by hand but I had to save after every line or the book crashed and I could start over again An other problem is that chessmaster does not read sublines so after importing games with anotation it reprts mistakes Or if a game starts not in the begin position the importing of games stops You also should ask Johan if he could improve the king safety of the King engine The trouble of Chessmaster is that it mostly looks 1 sided to a board position Always in favour of himself Mostlikely this is why it plays with a prety human kind of style Nice detail is when Chessmaster 5000 came out it found deeper mates then any other full chessprogram this never improved while other programs did An other problem of Chessmaster is the voice for the moves some way the intire system becomes unstabile because of this What about boards I use the small 2d board maple for most of the games In 3d the Bleu Marble but other piece sets are welcom aslong if they are recognisable enough. I am actualy also wating for the moment you start too use batle simulations in the kidsroom You also will find other custommers if you do Batlechess always was a best seller I am one of the persons who sees chess as art Myself I am curently working on such a project Movies wich simulate the time the GM's had the most sucses And the same simulated GM behind the board making the moves But i gues with mattels knowledge they can do this better then me. And yes that you have to insert the cd with CM8000 update is prety anoying so 5 What about other program s I gues Just as most posters here I have them all I own all chessmaster version too the only one I don't have is CM7000 but i have 2000 2100 3000 4000 5000 5500 6000 8000 And the gameboy version same counts for most other comercial programs
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