Author: Stephen A. Boak
Date: 20:26:46 05/08/02
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On May 07, 2002 at 22:33:37, John Merlino wrote: <portions snipped> >New Features for Chessmaster 9000 (in no particular order): >-- Endgame Database Support (de Koning format). Program ships with all 3-man and >4-man, plus a few of the more important 5-man sets. Also includes utility to >create the complete set of files. 1. Approx how many 5 man sets included? 2. Approx how many 5 man sets not included? 3. Approx how long to generate the *largest* missing 5 man set on a 1.0 GHz CPU? 4. Approx how long to generate *all* the missing 5 man sets on a 1.0 GHz CPU? 5. Will the missing sets be soon (or later) available for easy internet download (simpler than generating many large files) or by CD purchase? 6. What are the unique features of the de Koning endgame database format? 6A. What features may be new or better, relative to the Nalimov tablebases, for example? >Learning Tools >-- Blunder Alert, notifying users instantly when they make a "blunder" (a move >which shows a loss of more than a pawn, although this minimum value can be >changed by the user from between 0.5 to 3.0 pawns) 7. Will Analyze Game still show three levels of comments: slightly better, better, a lot better? I love being able to set my own thresholds. 7A. Will the thresholds for such comments still be settable by the user (in the .ini file)? 7B. I wish I could alter the comment words to go with different custom thresholds, and have the ability to add more thresholds & comments as desired . . . !!! Great feature you recently pointed out, thanks! >Personalities >-- Style settings for personalities are now "mirrored", meaning that there is >now MY King Safety and OPPONENT'S King Safety, MY Pawn Weakness and OPPONENT'S >Pawn Weakness, etc. Five more personality settings to play with! 8. Can we set one side to seek a draw, and the other side to avoid a draw, for example, by simultaneously using different settings for the two sides? Superb non-symmetrical parameters feature, if so. >-- Increased Selective Search maximum to 16 9. How long, typically, to get to SS16 in a typical middlegame position on, say, a 1.0 GHz CPU? >Mentor Engine >-- Mentor engine activity status messages >-- Mentor engine settings dialog (Hash Table size and Blunder Alert threshhold) >-- UNDOCUMENTED AND UNSUPPORTED! -- INI file setting to allow the user to change the mentor personality 10. Can Game Analysis be done by one or two different user custom CM personalities? 10. A. Or by one such personality with non-symmetrical user defined parameters (example, draw seeking, draw avoiding settings)? 11. Can hash table size be modified in the following ways: 11A. Permanently, for default CM personality? 11B. Permanently, for user custom CM personalities? 11C. Permanently, for Game Analysis by default CM personality? 10D. Permanently, for Game Analysis by user custom CM personality? Allowing this via personality dialog settings would be great. Allowing this via modification of .ini or personality parameter files would be okay. >-- Thinking Lines window available in Tournament Room (only if the current game >is comp vs. comp -- otherwise this window will be blank) 12. Can I show thinking lines during 'continuous' analysis, when I step through the moves of an OTB game I played in my club, and later entered into a pgn or CM file--which I wish to analyse by stepping through the moves one by one, while watching the thinking lines for as long as I have the patience? 12A. In the Game Room, as with CM8000? Or is Tournament Room better for this, for some reason, or more restrictive, for some reason? >Support Windows >-- New "Mentor Lines" window that shows either the N best moves overall or the >single best move over time (i.e. the way CM8000 displayed its output in the >Thinking Lines window). This window is available in the Game Room and also in >the Library (for quick analysis of Classic Games or opening book lines) 13. Is 'N best moves overall' feature available in the Analyze Game mode (for unattended overnight analysis)? >Game Analysis >-- Time and Depth for each move of Game Analysis indicated in "Analysis" tab of >Annotation window 14. Does this mean both Time & Depth will show for each move on printouts of Auto Annotation or Analysis? I hope so! Thanks in advance for your replies. I greatly appreciate the sincere effort you put into listening to CM consumers and the passing of suggestions to the product development team, etc. Your product is much the better because of this wonderful rapport with the computer chess user community. Kudos! --Steve Boak >jm
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