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Subject: Re: Where is Chessmaster 8000? (nt)

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 14:06:04 11/16/01

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On November 16, 2001 at 08:27:31, Chessfun wrote:

>On November 16, 2001 at 05:44:09, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:
>
>>On November 15, 2001 at 21:59:23, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>On November 15, 2001 at 21:45:16, John Merlino wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 15, 2001 at 21:39:05, Chessfun wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 15, 2001 at 20:55:42, John Merlino wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On November 15, 2001 at 18:31:36, Chessfun wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On November 14, 2001 at 17:23:11, john rice wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>.
>>>>>>>Chessmaster 8000 will lose about 25% of it's games using a time increment.
>>>>>>>I am going to run it at some point but at 1/0.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Sarah.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Why would it lose 25% of its games? There is no evidence to suggest that there
>>>>>>are any problems with any of the time controls (assuming you have the patched
>>>>>>version). And, if you are not using the CM GUI, then there wouldn't be any
>>>>>>problems with ANY version. The bug was with the CM GUI only.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>jm
>>>>>
>>>>>Couldn't tell you why it does but it does.
>>>>>It could be as simple as the CB adapter.
>>>>>
>>>>>You are welcome to give it a try yourself.
>>>>>
>>>>>Sarah.
>>>>
>>>>Ah, ok. I have no experience with the CB adapter, so I cannot make any further
>>>>comments.
>>>
>>>Just tried again 4 games and CM lost 2 on time.
>>>The funny thing is this is only after 60 moves but in a 1/0 game CM
>>>hardly ever losses on time and will make 60 moves in about 40 seconds.
>>>
>>>Sarah.
>>
>>Could it be a possibility to run this matches through ICC. If Fritz could
>>interface with ICC you could let CA take care of CM-engine. Then it also could
>>have gotten the missing booklearning (missing only in comp-comp matches). And
>>perhaps somebody have converted the CM-book to CA too.
>>
>>Odd Gunnar
>
>Fritz can only interface at ICC either with a second pc or if you have two
>free com ports on a single pc. If I wanted I could just as well autoplay it from
>winboard.
>

I'm away from home now (on a otb tournament!) but if you use auto32 I think it
is also an alternative in CA with both aut32 as master and slave (add new
engine).

Odd Gunnar

>Sarah.



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