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Subject: Re: CM9000 in Arena GUI

Author: Darren Rushton

Date: 12:08:10 01/11/04

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>I think it is illegal to hack engines to make them play in an UI that is not is
>own.
>
>If it is the case and that the author (in this case M. de Koning and/or Ubisoft)
>did not allow this practice, i think this kind of massage is a violation of the
>charter and should not be permitted.
>
>Of course if the author of the engine do not bother there is no problem and that
>kind of topics can be discussed here.
>
>Just my 2 cents.
>
>Mathieu


Hmmm, thanks, but that wasn't exactly helpful - I followed Frank Quisinsky's
advice to obtain the opk number. So, by your reasoning, everyone who has done
this has violated UBIsoft's terms and conditions...


Below an instruction from Frank Quisinsky how to run TheKing 3.12 under CB-GUI:

WinBoard TheKing adapter by Add Gunnar Marlin:
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<extract>

NOTE 1:
You need a OPK number!


Peter Berger wrote in WinBoard Forum about the OPK number:
WinBoard Forum: http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/0

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a. You have to be a legal owner of Chessmaster8000 - else : forget it.
b. Every day Chessmaster creates a magic OPK number to send to "The King"
so your engine settings for "The King" has to be changed daily.
c. Save your "TheKing.exe" so "TheKing.save"
d. Copy a crafty or other WinBoard engine which writes decent logfiles to
the Chessmaster 8000 folder and call it "TheKing.exe"
e Start Chessmaster8000 and start a game against a Chessmaster personality
now.
f. Have a look at the logfile: you'll see exactly what Chessmaster sends
- most important is the OPK-number.
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Regards,

Darren





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