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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 9000 Questions

Author: Thom Perry

Date: 01:47:12 07/04/03

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Mike,

Thanks.  I bookmarked your information.

On July 04, 2003 at 00:25:19, Mike Byrne wrote:

>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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