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

Author: Chessfun

Date: 03:47:50 11/17/01

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On November 16, 2001 at 17:06:04, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>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).

Correct.

Sarah.




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