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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 9000 suggestions to John Merlino

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:28:04 01/23/02

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On January 21, 2002 at 06:48:58, Chip Sears wrote:

>I have a couple of suggestions for the latest version of Chessmaster:
>
>1)  Have unlimited time for "Natural Language Advice", or at leat 8 hours

We can increase the maximum amount of time for that feature. But, if you want
truly "unlimited" analysis of a position, just use the Thinking Lines window.

>2) Change the copy protection to "refuel" system where the CD is needed only
>once a month. Always needing the CD around can be difficult at times

This is probably going to be the case for the next version.

>3) allow for a couple of Chessmaster personalities to analyze a
>position. That would be very interesting

This may be available as an undocumented INI file setting. It would probably be
a bad idea to allow such a change through the GUI, because some people would
forget (or not know) that they changed the personality and then complain about
the bad advice!

>Also, Will there be  a "Gold" version of Chessmaster 8000 that contains all the
>patches?  I know that Chessmaster has not done that in the past, but other
>companies have done that with their games and that has worked out great
>(Starfleet Command Gold comes to mind as an example)

There are no plans for that. The most recent patch, however, does contain all of
the bug fixes, and it's only a little over 1 MB, so there's no real reason to
re-release the program just because of that. HOWEVER, now that Ubi Soft owns us,
THEY are starting to make CM8000 copies available, and their version is already
1.0.4 and therefore does not require the patch.

jm



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