Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:38:35 05/29/03
You posted a question about the Mentor Lines dialog in CM9000 several days ago, and I just noticed it now. To answer your question, the ReadMe file in CM9000 details the content and usage of this window. I'll quote it here: ----------------- The Mentor Lines window is briefly discussed in the manual, but an explanation of the "Best Moves" control and the intent of this window was omitted. Briefly speaking, this window, which is available in the Game Room and the Library, allow you to see "running commentary" by Chessmaster about the position of the current game. This commentary will run indefinitely, until the status of the current game is changed, at which point the commentary will begin again with the new position of the current game. When opened, this window automatically launches a "mentor" engine instance to watch the game. This will, like the Visual Thinking Window, take up as much CPU time as a computer personality that is actually playing the game. The data that is displayed in this window is identical in content and layout to the Thinking Lines window. The "Best Lines" control of this window allows you to view this data in two different ways. If you select 1 (one) best move to be shown, then the window will show the single best move "over time". In other words, as the Chessmaster engine searches deeper, the most recent "best move" will be replaced by a newer one AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST. This is very important to remember -- if "Best Moves" equals one, then the best move is always at the BOTTOM of the list. If "Best Moves" is greater than one, then the Mentor Lines window will show a number of lines equal to the number of best moves that you have asked for. These moves will be sorted by score FROM THE TOP DOWN. So, if "Best Moves" is greater than one, then the best move is always at the TOP of the list. ----------------- Additionally, I would strongly suggest thoroughly reading this file, as it contains much useful information that did not end up in the manual. jm
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