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Subject: Re: CHESSMASTER 6000

Author: Mark Young

Date: 03:40:24 12/20/98

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On December 20, 1998 at 05:08:24, Steve Timson wrote:

>On December 20, 1998 at 04:46:09, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On December 19, 1998 at 23:40:48, Lanny DiBartolomeo wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>  Has anyone experienced a crash when trying to play a rated game with the GM
>>>pre-made engines like Alekhine,Tal I log in as Im the next Bobby Fischer
>>>(because I am :)))) I usually play against LIAM or CM6000 itself I decided I
>>>wanted to play against TAL and the program crashed! then I tried to start it up
>>>and no luck I had to restart my computer and try again so I tried Alekhine same
>>>thing happened. It does not happen from LIAM on down or with CM6000. If anyone
>>>knows what to do I would be forever grateful!!
>>
>>I don't think you can play the GM's at all in rated play, because they have no
>>rating. I can not play them at all.
>
>The GM's appear as an option on mine as soon as I become non-provisional.  They
>do crash it however.  I sent a bug-report to them about this a long time ago.
>They replied that it would be fixed in the upcoming patch (due out any day now
>according to their site).  I have no idea if the fix will be to prevent you from
>playing rated games against them or if they will actually fix the crash...

Thats what they might do, keep you from playing them. I don't show a rating for
the GM players at all. As I do with Chessmaster and the other players. I don't
have 20 games yet, because I only play long games when playing rated. Does it
show a rating for the GM players after 20 games.

>
>
> - Steve



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