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Subject: Re: Fun little Chessmaster bug/feature :)

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:56:20 10/01/02

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On September 30, 2002 at 19:34:20, Kim Roper Jensen wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have bought Chessmaster 9000, and must say a nice program !
>
>Nice interface, and all but there is a little bug.....
>
>Were adjusting the hashtable on the Chessmaster personality and saving it with a
>new value(256MB) when i noticed this in the Info/Long playing Style:
>
>"Chessmaster 9000 is powered by version 3.23 of The King chess engine. On this
>system, Chessmaster is rated at %d U.S."
>
>Hmmmmm Chessmaster is rated at %d ??? ;)
>
>Seems someone forgot something in the code :) LOL
>
>PS. Doesnt harm the program, but couldnt help noticing it.....

Matthew Barnett has hit it on the head. This is not a bug, it's a feature! :-)

Basically, in the EDIT Personality dialog, you can put a "%d" in the "Playing
Style" section, and when that personality shows up in the SELECT Personality
dialog, it fills that "%d" with the calculated rating based on your CPU speed.

jm



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