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Subject: Re: CM9000

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:20:01 10/06/04

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On October 06, 2004 at 14:47:16, Graham Banks wrote:

>On October 06, 2004 at 14:40:40, axel binevskiy wrote:
>
>>I mean all these complains that were posted.
>
>
>I think you'll find that those who complained with aspects of CM10th Edition
>would have been happier all round with CM9000. The latest default version of The
>King engine in CM10th Edition is stronger and better balanced in its playing
>style than the default engine in CM9000, but as you can see from tournaments
>being run, modified CM9000 settings can produce really good results also.
>Apart from the new version of The King engine, I much prefer CM9000 especially
>as you're able to autorun tournaments. With CM10th Edition you have to manually
>start each game in a tournament.
>
>Graham.

That last item is a horrible oversight (or an even more horrible intentional
change to the tournament engine). I cannot explain the reasoning behind it being
that way at all.

There was one other bad bug/oversight/interface decision in the demo that I
don't know if it still exists in the full version. In the online portion, you
can only set up games such that you play White or Black -- there is no "random
color" option. That's just wrong....

jm



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