Author: Mike Hood
Date: 16:45:00 01/16/03
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On January 16, 2003 at 04:02:20, Manfred Meiler wrote: >On January 16, 2003 at 00:11:47, Mike Hood wrote: > >>On January 15, 2003 at 22:10:37, Mike Byrne wrote: >> >>>it might be a little more clear - you do NOT need inbetween when you import the >>>engine under the UCI to winboard adapter (using the wb2uci us the best way to >>>go) >>> >>>http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/Winboard5.html#[E.9] >>> >>>go to CM9K under Chessbase interface ... > >> >>Thanks. I've got it running now. It's not difficult when you know how. Still, >>the Chessmaster programmers have made things very inconvenient. It's an >>extremely user-unfriendly copy-protection scheme. I hope someone will soon >>provide a patch to bypass the OPK query. > > >Let us be fair: The King engine of CM8000/CM9000 is not especially designed to >run in other GUI like Fritz - but CM8000/9000 GUI should give the possibility to >use WinBoard engines. >Thanks to Odd Gunnar Malin (InBetween and the newer Wb2Uci adaptor) and thanks >to Emil Vlasak & Jan Pletanek (OPK utility) there's a way to run The King engine >under Fritz, Shredder Classic or Arena in a comfortable way. > >Look at http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/Winboard4.html#[D.3.5]. In section >D.3.5 there's an offer by me: > >"It's enough if your readers give me the EXACT paths (incl. possible spaces >between) to their folders > >- Chessmaster 8000 or Chessmaster 9000 >- Fritz 7/8 (or another UCI compatible ChessBase GUI) or Shredder5, Schredder >6/7 Classic or Arena >- ChessBase\Engines. > >With my prepared files you can start the CM8000 or 9000 engine "The King 3.12d" >or "The King 3.23d" (as UCI engine with the Wb2Uci adaptor of Odd Gunnar Malin) >in Fritz 7/8 very simply - including the possibility to switch between some >special CM settings (like CM_default, CM_Fun, CM8777_Kleinert, CM_Schuele, >CM_Pillen, CM9_Utz12n...) in an easy way.". > >Manfred I read this offer of yours, but I didn't take you up on it because I assumed that it only entailed the adaptation of the Visual Basic script for those not computer literate enough to do it themselves. Do you do more than this? The best "legal" solution would be to write a utility "getOPK.exe" which would grab the OPK without Chessmaster even being started. (The Visual Basic script starts the full Chessmaster program, of course). The best "illegal" solution would be to reverse engineer TheKing.exe and patch it to always run with the same OPK number. This would be a great help to people like me who only intend to run TheKing within other GUIs, but it would also help people distribute the engine illegally. A "reasonable" solution would be for the next version of Chessmaster to only request a new OPK number once a month. Even Chessbase doesn't ask for the original CDs every day.
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