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Subject: Re: Hoyle Majestic Chess : Head-To-Head with ChessMaster???

Author: John Merlino

Date: 07:52:27 07/11/03

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On July 11, 2003 at 04:56:31, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On July 10, 2003 at 16:56:01, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>The program is being shipping under the extremely popular Hoyle brand, and is
>>therefore being created for the appropriate kind of users (i.e. those who want
>>to have FUN -- above all else -- learning and playing chess). I would say that
>>the program succeeds very well in this regard, IMHO.
>>
>>jm
>
>it would be good to have at least the standard chess program features:
>
>information about:
>main line, score, search depth, infinite - level, hash-tables setting possible,
>tablebase usage ?!,

There is an "AI Thinking" window which shows depth, score, # of positions and
PV.

>the idea of using playing styles and let the user edit them is very good
>and helps to tune the chess engine.
>
>as you said there is an analysis mode that shows information when in
>player-player mode, this sounds all nice.
>
>i hope there is also a board/piece set that is good for professional chess
>players.

There are many many sets of various types: 2D, Perspective (like the "Fixed
View" in Chessmaster) and real-time 3D. I'm pretty sure that 2D has the most
options.

jm



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