Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:07:56 07/08/02
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On July 08, 2002 at 16:56:25, Roger D Davis wrote: >On July 08, 2002 at 15:21:03, John Merlino wrote: > >>On July 08, 2002 at 14:47:10, Arturo Ochoa wrote: >> >>>I have been using ChessMaster X000 (X=2,3,4,5,6,7 & 8) for years. >>> >>>I like a lot the Multimedia Gui and several features of the Gui. >>> >>>I would like to can Match ChessMaster against other Engines without using >>>special adapters or using The King Engine in other Guis. It is a boring to be >>>changing the special number every day or using the Engine out of ChessMaster. >>> >>>I know that you have posted here that ChessMaster 9000 won't have Autoplayer232 >>>Support but I think it would be an good feature to can use The King in its >>>native Gui (ChessMaster). >>> >>>More, I have been working for Diep since August 2001 and It makes me easy the >>>testing with Diep running on its own gui and matching it against other Engines >>>using Autplayer232. >>> >>>I would appreciate if you have reconsidered to implement this feature in >>>ChessMaster 9000 or the real reason why you haven't implemented such feature in >>>this Version? >>> >>>Thanks in advance. >>> >>>Regards, Arturo Ochoa. >> >>The MAIN reason why we've never implemented Auto232 is because it is always way >>down the list of features that we would like to implement in each version, and >>it never "makes the cut". It is something that we would like to do if we had >>unlimited time, but since that never is the case, it never gets done. >> >>And the main reason that it is always down our list of to-do items is that it >>offers very little for our typical user. >> >>jm > >"...it offers very little for our typical user." > >In my opinion, John, the world is about more than marketing, and companies have >an obligation to customers who are at the cutting edge, as this group is, >especially those who seek to self-honestly test and improve the program, as this >group has. Money can't buy that kind of loyalty. Perhaps to your company, chess >is just about return on investment. But to most of those here, chess is one of >those rare points in life where the intellect makes contact with something >beautiful. As such, it belongs to all of us, and should be respected as more >than a mere "product." I certainly hope that you will take up the suggestions of >this group and improve your feature set in accordance with their >recommendations. I would think it would be an honor to your company to have the >ear of this group of fine researchers, programmers, and patrons. > >Roger You cannot imagine how many suggestions from this group HAVE been put into Chessmaster. I would say that there would be dozens, at least. Auto232, however, is an obscure feature, even for most people on this group. I would venture to say that less than 0.1% of the people who buy Chessmaster have even heard of it. When a feature, at best, is going to be used by 1/1000th of users, it gets put on the back-burner in favor of other features. However, several other intrepid users have found that it is, in fact, rather easy to use Auto232 with Chessmaster: www.chesskit.com/aarontay/Winboard/auto232.htm And the Chessmaster 8000 FAQ also covers this question in detail: www.chessmaster.com/faqs8000.html So, while we have not implemented Auto232 support directly, we certainly have not ignored those people who want do use it. jm
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