Author: Stuart Smith
Date: 23:58:22 11/20/02
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Hi John, I play most of my games against on CM9K against the Chessmaster for two main reasons; he seems most likely to stick to the strongest opening book moves (which I am keen to practise) and he makes the replying moves very quickly so I don't have to wait long to get thrashed ;-). If I play, for example, Josh 8 yrs old, he takes several minutes per move - why? Once the game is over I set the analysis mode to 30-60 seconds and let it do its thing (now [arrived today] that I have a 2.2GHz P4 with 1Gb RDRAM machine I suspect it can do a better job than my previous 450MHz P3 in the same 30-60 secs slot?). I purchased this new PC (running XP) mostly to play chess on and get around the CM9K bug on my W2K system whereby tournaments are always played against ChessMaster - do people get obsessive about chess?? A lot of the analysis shows no comments against a particular although it does show a resultant score which is of some use; what I would like to see is 'if you did this or this or this ...' type of output. Finally, I use the 'Advice' option quite often and get slightly frustrated when after setting time to 300 seconds, it provides a sequence of moves; I make the first move suggested and then CM makes a completely different move to the one predicted. I must add that these are minor comments for what is an overall great package for playing/teaching chess (although I must say I am concerned that its future development has been 'compromised' by UbiSoft letting go of you). Many Thanks to all who replied. p.s. now that I have 1Gb RDRAM should I change the hash table size from the default - if so, how do I do this?
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