Author: Ralph Patriquin
Date: 18:42:56 01/02/03
I've recently purchased Chessmaster 9000 and have a few questions. The first involve running The King 3.23 under the Fritz 7 GUI using WB2UCI. Thanks to help from Manfred Meiler I have it running but there are some anomalies with Engine Parameters. Here is my WB2UCI.eng file: [ENGINE] Name=The King 3.23 Author=Johan de Koning Filename=WB2UCI.exe [OPTIONS] Program=C:\Program Files\Ubi Soft\Chessmaster 9000\TheKing.exe InitString=cm_parm default opk=595966 opp=96 opn=99 opb=102 opr=100 opq=103 myp=96 myn=99 myb=102 myr=100 myq=103 cc=115 mob=120 ks=150 pp=115 pw=125 cfd=0 sop=100 avd=-10 rnd=0 sel=12 md=99 tts=33554432 ;HashCommand=cm_parm tts=%i000000 Ponder=false; ShowThinkingMove=true Logfile=false ;Visible=Ponder,Hash,ShowThinkingMove,Logfile,Extras Visible=ShowThinkingMove,Logfile,Extras [EXTRAS] Personality=<readfile>|combo|Pillen|Chessmaster|Kleinert|Pillen|Utzinger HashTable=<readfile>|combo|32 MB|4 MB|8 MB|16 MB|32 MB|64 MB|128 MB The first problem is that even if I set Ponder and Hash as Visible, they don't show up. Therefore I set up my own HashTable combo button where, for example "32 MB.txt" looks like this: ;CM settings for 32 MB Hash table cm_parm tts=33554432 This works, but I wish the built in Hash command would work. If I look at the log file I can see that WB2UCI is sending the Hash and Ponder options over, but they don't show up. Concerning how HashCommand=cm_parm tts=%i000000 works, it will send for example "cm_parm tts=32000000" for 32 MB, correct? The actual number of bytes is 33554432, as I send in the InitString or in "32 MB.txt". Would this affect performance at all by having the Hash not be aligned on a power of 2? Also, even though I have defaults set for Pillen personality and 32 MB Hash, I don't believe this gets sent unless I bring up the Engine parameters, select these settings and OK it. That's why I send these defaults through the InitString. Am I right in this assumption? My final question concerns the appearance of the Chessmaster 9000 GUI itself. I'm running it on Windows XP Home Edition, and the Chessmaster font doesn't look right. For instance a command in the drop down menus will have letters squished together and spacing between letters that is too large, all in the same word. Has anyone else had this problem and know how to fix it? I'm bummed because Chessmaster is known for its pretty interface, but mine looks sad. Thanks for any and all help, Ralph Patriquin
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