Author: John Merlino
Date: 18:47:46 09/22/02
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On September 22, 2002 at 20:21:03, Steven J. Brann wrote: >On September 22, 2002 at 18:53:19, John Merlino wrote: > >>On September 22, 2002 at 18:45:29, Steven J. Brann wrote: >> >>>On September 22, 2002 at 17:39:30, John Merlino wrote: >>> >>>>On September 22, 2002 at 17:28:55, Steven J. Brann wrote: >>>> >>>>>On September 22, 2002 at 16:36:21, John Merlino wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On September 22, 2002 at 16:26:19, Steven J. Brann wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On September 22, 2002 at 00:37:09, John Merlino wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>The path in cm.ini is: >>>>>>>>>EGDBPath=C:\Documents and Settings\Steven\My Documents\Chessmaster 9000\EGDB >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>And the EGDB files are there. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Ok. I'm going to ask you to do the same steps that I asked Kurt to do. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>1) Set up a position with two kings and two pawns. >>>>>>>>2) Open the "Coach" window and go to the Advice Tab. For every move in the list, >>>>>>>>there should be either a "Black Mates in...", "White Mates in..." or "Game is >>>>>>>>Drawn". If you see this, then the EGDBs are working properly. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>John, the advice tab in the coach window just gives the possible moves. No mate >>>>>>>in X is displayed. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Confirms the fact that it's not working I guess. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Steve >>>>>> >>>>>>Very odd. Have you changed ANYTHING about your installation? What installation >>>>>>option did you choose? Did you download the EGDB generator? Did you ever edit >>>>>>the cm.ini file to change the EGDBPath setting? And, as a last resort, have you >>>>>>tried uninstalling and reinstalling? >>>>>> >>>>>>jm >>>>> >>>>>The only thing I changed in the install was to specify another drive partition >>>>>other than the default which was F:\Gam\Program Files\Ubi Soft etc. I did the >>>>>complete install. >>>>> >>>>>I did download the EGDB generator but have not installed it. I did not edit the >>>>>EGDB path setting... just changed the ttable size for mentor from 21 to 128MB. >>>>> >>>>>I have not tried another install, but unless you can see anything else I could >>>>>do, I will try that. >>>>> >>>>>Thanks, >>>>> >>>>>Steve >>>> >>>>Other than giving me the list of the files in the EGDB folder, so I can see what >>>>files might be missing, I can't think of anything other than uninstalling and >>>>reinstalling (which I know is annoying). >>>> >>>>Just FYI, since Kurt mentioned it, several people HAVE reported problems with >>>>the EGDBs appearing to not work, but in every case it was either user error or >>>>user confusion. I have no idea what it can be in this case, however.... >>>> >>>>jm >>> >>>John, >>> >>>The EGDB folder contains 228 files, 188MB (197,673,444 bytes) >>> >>>Do I have everything? >>> >>>Steve >> >>That is exactly right. I remain clueless.... :-( >> >>When I asked you to enter a position with two kings and two (2) pawns, do you >>remember what the position was? I would like to try it myself. >> >>jm > >Hi John, > >Kings and 2 pawns each > >W: Ke1, pawns e3 and f4 >B: Ke8, pawns a7,and h7 > >White to move > >Steve No, no, no. Two kings and two pawns TOTAL! We're only talking about a maximum of five pieces here, but I originally asked for four total just to be safe. However, since you did the complete installation, you do have a few of the more useful 5-piece files, so let's try this position: W: Ke1 Bd2 Be2 B: Ke8 Ne7 White to move Or, if you prefer, just copy this text below (after the "[D]") to the clipboard, and then go to "Edit -> Paste -> Forsythe Board Position". [D]4k3/4n3/8/8/8/8/3BB3/4K3 w - - 0 1 Opening the Coach window should show the 20 legal moves, and all of them are between Mate in 64 (the only one of these being Bg4) and Mate in 68 for White. If you then set both players to be Chessmaster, you should get this game played out in about a minute: [Event ""] [Site ""] [Date "2002.9.22"] [Round ""] [White "Chessmaster"] [Black "Chessmaster"] [TimeControl "600"] [Result "1-0"] [Setup "1"] [FEN "4k3/4n3/8/8/8/8/3BB3/4K3 w - - 0 1"] 1.Bg4 Nd5 2.Bg5 Kf7 3.Kf2 Nf6 4.Bf5 Ng8 5.Ke3 Ne7 6.Bh3 Nd5+ 7.Ke4 Nc7 8.Ke5 Ne8 9.Be6+ Kg6 10.Bd8 Ng7 11.Bb3 Nh5 12.Kd6 Ng7 13.Bc2+ Kf7 14.Kd7 Nh5 15.Bb3+ Kg6 16.Ke7 Nf4 17.Bc2+ Kg5 18.Ba5 Nd5+ 19.Ke6 Ne3 20.Be4 Kf4 21.Bc6 Nc2 22.Bc7+ Ke3 23.Ke5 Na3 24.Bb6+ Kd3 25.Kd5 Nb1 26.Bb5+ Kc2 27.Be8 Kb3 28.Bf7 Nc3+ 29.Kd4+ Kc2 30.Kc4 Nd1 31.Bg6+ Kd2 32.Kd4 Ne3 33.Ba5+ Ke2 34.Ke4 Nc2 35.Bh5+ Kf2 36.Kf4 Kf1 37.Bb6 Ke1 38.Ke4 Kd2 39.Ba5+ Kc1 40.Bc3 Na3 41.Kd3 Nb5 42.Bg7 Na3 43.Be8 Nb1 44.Ba4 Na3 45.Kc3 Nb1+ 46.Kb3 Kd2 47.Kb2 Nc3 48.Bxc3+ Kd3 49.Bb3 Ke4 50.Kc2 Ke3 51.Be6 Ke4 52.Kd2 Kf3 53.Kd3 Kf4 54.Bf6 Kf3 55.Be5 Kf2 56.Bg4 Ke1 57.Bg3+ Kf1 58.Bh3+ Kg1 59.Ke4 Kh1 60.Bf4 Kg1 61.Kf3 Kh1 62.Kg3 Kg1 63.Be3+ Kh1 64.Bg2# 1-0 jm
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