Author: Graham Banks
Date: 14:33:01 10/06/04
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On October 06, 2004 at 17:20:01, John Merlino wrote: >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 Not sure about the online thing as I've never bothered with it. Hopefully they'll fix the autorun tournament problem in a patch. Graham.
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