New?? Screenshot CM11

[AdminX]

or fullscreen:

http://www.64thsquare.com/cm11.jpg

By the way who in their right mind would play this opening??

[Ovyron]

I hope next ChessMaster 11 is old video card friendly. There were some beautiful pieces on the screenshots of ChessMaster 10 that looked really bad on my computer, just because my video card is outdated.

[mclane]

i am more interested how the engine plays.
the board can be plein text IMO.

whats the best graphics worth if the engine is crap.

[AdminX]

i am more interested how the engine plays.
the board can be plein text IMO.

whats the best graphics worth if the engine is crap.

I would be happy to see "The King" go UCI or even UCI support for other chess engines, but somehow I just don't think its going to happen. From the screenshot I see the number of players online has not changed.

[Ovyron]

whats the best graphics worth if the engine is crap.

Can you define crap? Do you define it as weaker than Rybka? Or as weaker than previous version? Or something else?

[mclane]

if the new the king engine is stronger than the last version it is no crap.

i would like to see and buy an engine that made progress.

IMO the company in charge would do a good service if they would tell the customers about the engine progress too.
instead of concentrating on graphics and features.

[Kirk]

Have you heard anything about GUI enhancements? It has not seemed as flexible as other GUIs in going over multiple variations, especially after running analysis.

If I read it right, Fritz 11 has added some additional features to study variations.

[Mike S.]

Another screenshot reveals that it will contain a 64 bit version of The King 3.50 (but certainly a 32 bit version, too):

http://tinyurl.com/24c698 (~90 KB)

The filename of the pic is

"New%20engine%20-%20The%20King%20with%20multithread%20and%20multicore_m.jpg"

so it looks like a mp capable engine, but the descriptions on the CM XI website don't mention that.

http://chessmaster.us.ubi.com/xi/whatsNew.php

[menniepals]

if the new the king engine is stronger than the last version it is no crap.

i would like to see and buy an engine that made progress.

IMO the company in charge would do a good service if they would tell the customers about the engine progress too.
instead of concentrating on graphics and features.

CM is concentrating mostly on regular chess software buyer who are more impressed mostly on graphics.

[mclane]

this is more impressive than any graphics.

[Event "27th DOCC"]
[Site "Leiden, NED"]
[Date "2007.10.26"]
[Round "02"]
[White "The King"]
[Black "Deep Junior"]
[ECO "B33"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6
6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bf4 e5 8. Bg5 a6 9. Na3 b5 10. Nd5 Be7
11. Bxf6 Bxf6 12. c3 O-O 13. Nc2 Bg5 14. a4 bxa4 15. Rxa4
a5 16. Bc4 Rb8 17. b3 Kh8 18. O-O f5 19. exf5 Bxf5 20. Nce3
Bg6 21. Be2 Ne7 22. Nxe7 Qxe7 23. Rxa5 Bxe3 24. fxe3 Rxf1+
25. Qxf1 Rf8 26. Qe1 Be4 27. b4 Qb7 28. Ba6 Qf7 29. h3 h6
30. Qd2 Qg6 31. Kh2 h5 32. Ra2 Rf6 33. b5 d5 34. Bb7 h4
35. Qe1 Qg5 36. Re2 Rg6 37. Qd2 Bf3 38. Bxd5 Bxe2 39. Qxe2
e4 40. c4 Rf6 41. Kg1 Rf3 42. Qd2 Rxe3 43. Bxe4 g6 44. Qd4+
Kh7 45. Bd3 Qg3 46. Bf1 Rf3 47. c5 Rf7 48. Bc4 Qe1+ 49. Kh2
Qg3+ 50. Kh1 Rf2 51. Qe4 Rf4 52. Qe2 Rf2 53. Qe4 Rf4
54. Qe7+ Kh6 55. Be2 Rf2 56. Qe4 Rf5 57. Qe8 Qe1+ 58. Kh2
Qg3+ 59. Kh1 Qe1+ 60. Kh2 Qg3+ 61. Kh1 1/2-1/2

Go The King ! Go !

as far as i read junior was running on 16 cores, the king on 2.