Re: Chessmaster 2100

[nandu@anest4.anest.ufl.edu (Nandu S. Shah)]

In article <CH8BzJ.4tz@freenet.carleton.ca> aa382@freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira) writes:

>I've been getting back into chess lately, and I fired up Chessmaster 2100
>for a game today. Imagine my surprise when it made an illegal move (very
>blase about it too) and reliably continued to make the same move when I
>took back/replayed the sequence.

Mine does the same.  I originally saw this problem on a pirated copy, and I 
thought that the pirates had somehow meddled with the code (intentionally or 
otherwise)...  One difference, however, is that when I save the game & try 
to play through it again, Chessmaster declares "Illegal move!"

>
>Now, I'm curious to know whether the problem lies in my copy or in every
>copy (it's in my backup as well, but the original may have become flaked
>out before I backed it up). Anyone who has the game is invited to try
>loading my saved game and playing a couple of moves to see if it starts
>picking up pawns and dropping them halfway across the board. Let me know
>via email if you're interested in trying it out; I have the saved game
>BinSCII'd and ready to send.

My CM 2100 has cheated MANY times (I say "cheated" because it does it most 
often when it's in a bind!), but the most memorable was the time that CM's 
rook captured ITS OWN KING (!), after which point it appeared that the 
object was now to checkmate the rook.  To test this theory, I deposited 
several queens on the board, so that the rook was under attack and trapped 
from all sides.  Chessmaster, unwilling to accept defeat, cried out, "I'm 
stalemated!"

Unfortunately, I don't think I can offer any assistance regarding 
Chessmaster-- only a few amusing anecdotes.  Personally, I gave up on 
my //gs as a chess partner & bought a full-fledged chess computer of the 
sort that comes with an electronic board & magnetic pieces...

>-- 
>Marc Sira                  |
>aa382@freenet.carleton.ca  |  "Your god drinks...p-p-peach nectar."
>toh@micor.ocunix.on.ca     '

Nandu Shah                                          nandu@anest4.anest.ufl.edu

         Please feel free to disregard completely this and any other
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