Author: Stephen A. Boak
Date: 20:06:45 11/30/01
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On November 30, 2001 at 22:27:25, Mike S. wrote: >On November 30, 2001 at 17:37:10, Keith Evans wrote: > >>Last night I noticed an interesting issue with the Chessmaster 8000 figurine >>font. Black's light squared bishop shows up as an empty light square in Wordpad >>and Word running under Windows 98SE. >> >>Does anyone here _not_ have this problem? To reproduce this problem just copy >>the starting position using the figurine font and paste it into WordPad. (If you >>view the font using the Character Map tool then the bishop is visible.) > >I can reproduce the problem in Wordpad, WinME. This letter is no. (Alt-)0158. I >see it in the Character Map, but in Wordpad only an empty space appears when I >paste it. I tried the black B on a black square, Alt-0185, and this one was ok. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl I have previously noted a perhaps related problem at times. When I copied & pasted Game Analysis to Wordpad (maybe Word also, don't remember), sometimes the diagram was messed up. A square was missing, so the diagram showed (example) two black squares side by side, and the chessboard was therefore incorrectly displayed. I eventually found out I could copy the missing piece/square (proper colors, of course) from another diagram where that piece/square combination (proper colors) was properly displayed. This would allow me to fix the bad diagram. I don't recall now whether the 'missing' piece/square was always a particular kind of piece or combination of colors (piece/square). I think it varied, since I seem to recall having to cut & paste more than one missing piece/square into the same diagram--which was missing more than one piece/square. This was a distraction, requiring extra work, but my workaround took care of it, once I determined that the method would fix the displayed diagram. I have one PC with W98 2ndEd, one with W2K Prof. Not sure on which the problem existed--one of them, or perhaps both. I haven't used CM8000 lately to analyze any of my games so I don't recall exactly. I used to use CM8000 a lot for overnight game analysis. I like some things that only CM8000 does, such as summarize the results of an analyzed line or the suggested best line by describing the pieces lost during a combination, and the pieces captured. This feature allowed an understanding of how the score jumped, say by the value of 1.00 pawn, without having to play out the line to see. You could tell by reading the text description of the analyzed bad move that, for example, a Rook was won, but a Knight and a Pawn were lost; or alternatively that 2 pawns were won, and one pawn was lost. The qualitative balance/nature (i.e. material) of the scores for the bad move, versus the suggested best move, could be easily seen. --Steve
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