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Subject: Re: CM9000

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:48:31 10/06/04

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On October 06, 2004 at 17:33:01, Graham Banks wrote:

>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.

Would it be too much trouble to give it a try? I'm very curious, since I
notified the Project Manager of this problem as soon as I saw it in the demo
(which was before the final version was released).

jm



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