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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 9000 Questions

Author: Thom Perry

Date: 17:22:04 07/03/03

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Mike,

Thanks.  What is inbetween?  I assume it is some sort of program that takes
another program's output and logs it into a file?

On July 03, 2003 at 19:46:09, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On July 03, 2003 at 18:57:26, Thom Perry wrote:
>
>>1.  Can you log CM9000's analysis while playing a game against it like you can
>>in M-Chess Pro?  I find it to be a great waste of time to have to resubmit a
>>game played against Fritz 6 just to find out what was its analysis, position by
>>position, during the game.  In M-Chess Pro, you just call up the log file after
>>the game for a complete analysis of each position!
>>
>>2.  Does CM9000 give you a real time read out of nodes count during its
>>analysis?  Fritz 6 doesn't, so you never know whether the program is really
>>doing anything, especially when it's analysis window hasn't changed for a long
>>time.  I know that once Fritz 6 announces a mate, it never improves no matter
>>how much longer it thinks.  For example, if it says mate-in-12, you can let it
>>think for days and it will never announce anything better, even if it is in
>>reality a mate-in-4 problem.
>
>It's trivial when using the engine under Fritz 8.  Using inbetween you could log
>the score.  I do not really use the CM GUI enough to answer your question any
>better.



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