Author: Manfred Meiler
Date: 01:18:45 01/17/03
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On January 16, 2003 at 19:45:00, Mike Hood wrote: >On January 16, 2003 at 04:02:20, Manfred Meiler wrote: (snip) >>>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? What I "do" is that what I wrote above: The individual OPK.vbs automaticly starts the CM8000/9000 GUI to refresh the OPK number and thereafter the Fritz GUI with the King engine is ready to start - with some special CM settings. > >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). Of course, for getting the OPK number. But thereafter the CM program can be closed again (no parallel CM GUI running with Fritz GUI). In summary there are ~ 10 seconds additionaly needed. > >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. Illegal solutions are not my interests. > >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. As I wrote above ... 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. Surely I'm not glad about this OPK number - but it's okay for me for using such a great engine in other GUI. BTW: You know that ChessBase engines generally do not run in other GUI.
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