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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 9000 Questions

Author: John Merlino

Date: 22:35:01 01/05/03

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On January 06, 2003 at 00:12:49, Ralph Patriquin wrote:

>John, many thanks! I forgot a question:
>
>Were't the ratings changed for personalities as well as Chessmaster changed from
>CM8K to CM9K? What were these changes? If I recall correctly there was a base
>rate change as well as an algorithm change.

There was a change to the base strength of the engine (30 conservative points
were added), but there was no change to the algorithm from the PATCHED version
of CM8000. Fifty points are added to the base for every doubling of CPU speed.

>Ralph
>
>P.S. My funky font problem was indeed caused by having ClearType font smoothing
>turned on. Setting this to Standard smoothing works fine, though it's a little
>disappointing, as I find the ClearType method much superior, particularly at
>smaller point sizes. Thanks again.

Well, I'm glad at least that the problem is solved, if not exactly fixed to your
satisfaction.

jm



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