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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 9000 Questions

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 21:25:19 07/03/03

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On July 03, 2003 at 20:22:04, Thom Perry wrote:

>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.


yes ,,it was designed initially to capture the OPK setting and as conduit
between CM9K engine and Fritz 7/8 GUI - you also use it the CM9K interface and
turn logging on to capture analysis

the better method now to use the engine in F8 is to use the wb2uci adapater

inbetween http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/cminfritz/cminfritz.html

wb2uci http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/Wb2Uci/

Michael



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