Author: John R. Menke, Sr.
Date: 20:21:57 10/07/99
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On October 07, 1999 at 21:51:02, Vicente Fernández wrote: >What about the engine? Is it true that it is the same engine's version that we >got in CM6000? Does CM7000 has an analysis window that lets you see the lines >and evaluation while going through a game? Thanks in advance. I have read on this forum and in a newsgroup that CM6000 and CM7000 have the same chess engine, but I haven't personally seen any documentation in that regard. Insofar as I can tell, CM7000 does not have an analysis window such as you describe. CM7000 is not even remotely similar to the ChessBase interface in that regard!? --JRM >>Greetings, >> >>I just received & installed CM7000, and my early impressions are negative. I >>don't like the new design, and I'm finding a host of apparent bugs. I may keep >>it for a few days then return it for a refund, and go back to the more reliable >>CM6000. In the meantime, I'll try to solve a few of its problems. >> >>For example in the gameroom I can't get it to wake up and think when a defined >>personality has the black pieces. CTRL-W (the wake up command) doesn't work. >>And if I try to move the black pieces manually, it keeps telling me that I can't >>move opponent's pieces!? Switching sides or flipping the board apparently does >>no good. Has anybody solved this problem yet, or am I overlooking something?! >> >>There is also an apparent mixup when switching sides and/or flipping the board. >>It forgets whose turn it is to move and lets the same side move twice, or am I >>just confused?! >> >>I did the minimum installation, which was supposed to take only about 19MB of >>hard drive space. However by just following the directions on screen, accepting >>only what it said was required, it put 55MB of stuff on my hard drive. It put >>on something called Quicktime and DirectX, and even changed my video drivers. >>Wow! I'll certainly have to get rid of most of that...if I keep it. Space is >>fairly valuable on my 512MB hard drive. >> >>Although not thoroughly tested, the CM7000 chess engine appears to run quite a >>bit slower on my system (AMD5x86 133MHz 64MB RAM), only about half as fast as >>CM6000. Unless that problem is solved pronto, that alone is enough reason to >>return it. With CM6000 I can usually reset my computer system to optimize the >>running speed, a technique that also works with Fritz 5.32 and Hiarcs 7.32, but >>that doesn't seem to affect CM7000. >> >>I use 800x600 video resolution so I loaded that size CM7000 layout, but some of >>the screens are the wrong size for that resolution. >> >>It has no resave/replace provision. So if I try to save the same game to disk >>again, it keeps adding a .cmg appendage each time. After a few resaves, the >>name gets pretty darned long with all those ".cmg" extensions on the end!? >> >>I admit that I don't adapt to new things quickly or easily, so maybe I'm being >>overcritical and blockheaded here. I would welcome if anybody can straighten me >>out on some of the above points. >> >>--JRM
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