Author: John Merlino
Date: 15:28:59 07/25/02
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On July 25, 2002 at 17:33:32, Albert Silver wrote: >On July 25, 2002 at 17:10:10, John Merlino wrote: > >>On July 25, 2002 at 16:37:36, Ingo Bauer wrote: >> >>>Hi >>> >>>Please give in addition to the normal GUI, a normal not so stylish more plain >>>look (eg. S6 Classic or Chesspartner GUI)! Just as an addition. With a normal >>>Windows look chessmaster will interest many of the "european" users (witch are >>>more adicted to an other company). :-) >>> >>>Thx Ingo Bauer >> >>Not going to happen with Chessmaster 9000, even if we had plenty of time. But, >>actually, we are probably going to "go gold" on Monday, so your request comes >>just a BIT too late. :-) >> >>jm > >Great news, and I saw some screenshots over at Games Domain. One question: >what's the beef on the engine? I remember your saying it was worked on and >improved, and was wondering what testing had been done, and what it had shown. >Also, did you take into account any of the successful settings/profiles made for >CM8000? > > Albert Wow, those screenshots are old and tiny. The ones that I'm sending out are much more impressive. This year, almost all of the testing on the new engine has been done by Johan himself, and is the result of almost two years of work. He did take into account much of the work and testing that had been done by all of the CM fanatics. Here is what he said about the new engine: - King safety enhanced with check vulnerability. - Deep check extensions removed. - Internal Iterative Deepening implemented. - Skipped lazy evaluation in far endgame. - Square rule bug "fixed". - Added feel of drawishness for narrow pawn formations. jm
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