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Subject: Re: Qestion for John Merlino

Author: pavel

Date: 16:45:57 06/18/02

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On June 18, 2002 at 18:25:40, John Merlino wrote:

>On June 18, 2002 at 18:15:45, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On June 18, 2002 at 18:05:56, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On June 18, 2002 at 18:04:23, Mustafa wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi John,
>>>>         is there learning file in chessmaster 9000,so that cm 9000 can learn
>>>>from everygame and every blunder it maded,the endgame tablebases will be
>>>>Nalimove or another format and also,how many rounds can be played in tournament
>>>>room unlimited or just 256 games like last time...
>>>
>>>Chessmaster 9000 will not have a learning function.
>>>
>>>The Endgame Databases will be in de Koning format.
>>>
>>That's too bad for people who already have the Namilov EGTBs installed for use
>>with any of a dozen+ other chess programs.  (Oh well, I guess hard disk space is
>>pretty cheap these days...)  But this is the only drawback (minor) in a great
>>list of improvements and new features -- I will be a buyer (as I have been for
>>EVERY version of Chessmaster that has ever shipped for the PC and for the Mac)!
>
>Glad you like the program.
>
>The complete set of 3, 4, and 5 man files in de Koning format is about 5.6 GB
>(which, IIRC, is about 1.5 GB smaller than the Nalimov format -- my memory might
>be failing me, though).
>
>The program will be shipping with a generator, so that users can complete any
>sets that do not come with the program. Additionally, we MIGHT allow these files
>to be available via download -- not sure yet. However, we hope that some kind
>soul (probably Dann Corbit) will generate them all and make them available on
>his FTP site.
>
>jm

Just curious, would'nt it be easier to just let it support nalimov, without
re-inventing the wheel?
IMO smaller size is not a good enough reason because 1.5GB is nothing big deal
in todays computer world.

another question (boy dont we ever stop asking question about CM :) ), can you
ask Johan to perticipate in this forum, It would be very interesting I am sure
for all CM fans :)


cheers,
pavs



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