Retro chess Chessmaster

[Wilhelm]

[ENGINE]
Name=CM XI 64 bit 8777
Author=Johan de Koning, NL
Filename=Wb2Uci.exe

[OPTIONS]
Program=TheKing350_64.exe /t4
InitString=cm_parm default\cm_parm opk=569186 opp=103 opn=121 opb=127 opr=121 opq=123 myp=103 myn=121 myb=127 myr=121 myq=123 mycc=112 mymob=123 myks=160 mypp=117 mypw=133 opcc=112 opmob=123 opks=160 oppp=117 oppw=133 avd=-2 sel=21

Name=CM XI 64 bit Isildur II
Author=Johan de Koning, NL
Filename=Wb2Uci.exe

[OPTIONS]
Program=TheKing350_64.exe /t4
InitString=cm_parm default\cm_parm opk=569186 opp=115 opn=119 opb=120 opr=119 opq=123 myp=115 myn=119 myb=120 myr=119 myq=123 cc=115 mob=122 myks=140 opks=160 mypp=115 oppp=119 pw=117 cfd=0 sop=100 avd=0 rnd=0 sel=21 md=99

Many thanks Graham I'll test them when WALL-E T8 is ready with the 1000 games test. Will take some time...

[JVMerlino]

If you want to know anything about Chessmaster, I'm your person.

Thanks, I have a question. Are the personalities in CM9-10-11 all the same values or are they adapted to the versions? I only have CM11 installed at the moment. I plan to do a tourney with them. I ever want to do this but never had the time for it. I have a set of them for outside use but I'm not sure if they are realy from CM11.
Did I remember right that you made a Kasparov setting? I didn't have it and want to include it.
If you have any idea what could be important on my site I'm open for it.

I didn't work on CM10 or CM11 (I was on the team that did CM5500 through CM9000), but I suspect that the Romanian development team did not change the personality settings for the GM or "human" personalities. They might have, under Johan's direction, changed the settings for the Chessmaster personality.

I did not make the Kasparov settings. The settings for the GM personalities were all made by either GM Larry Evans or FM Bruce Pandolfini. I honestly can't remember which. Both of them contributed a lot of tutorial content to the game.

jm

[Wilhelm]

If you want to know anything about Chessmaster, I'm your person.

Thanks, I have a question. Are the personalities in CM9-10-11 all the same values or are they adapted to the versions? I only have CM11 installed at the moment. I plan to do a tourney with them. I ever want to do this but never had the time for it. I have a set of them for outside use but I'm not sure if they are realy from CM11.
Did I remember right that you made a Kasparov setting? I didn't have it and want to include it.
If you have any idea what could be important on my site I'm open for it.

I didn't work on CM10 or CM11 (I was on the team that did CM5500 through CM9000), but I suspect that the Romanian development team did not change the personality settings for the GM or "human" personalities. They might have, under Johan's direction, changed the settings for the Chessmaster personality.

I did not make the Kasparov setting. The settings for the GM personalities were all made by either GM Larry Evans or FM Bruce Pandolfini. I honestly can't remember which. Both of them contributed a lot of tutorial content to the game.

jm

Ok, thank you. Then I must do it the hard way...

Wilhelm

[GONeill]

Hi all,

Regarding the CM opening books, I wrote some programs that will convert files between Arena books (ABK) and CM books (OBK). So you could load the PGN you want into Arena and then convert that into ChessMaster. They also do Polyglot files (BIN) but transferring out of BIN to anything else is a problem as the move sequences need to be recreated, and that can be difficult with large books. I never tidied them up so they are still simple command line tools.

https://goneill.co.nz/chess.php

That page also has my program that obtains the OPK key CM uses as a lock and transfers it into Arena. That program also has an option to output the settings for the selected personality, so if you are patient enough you could go through each player and transfer all of them to Arena.

Also, Graham's settings for the personalities above are missing a couple of flags:

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         Hash settings (tts and ttu)
          - When hash=0      tts=4096,     ttu=0
          - When hash=512Kb  tts=524288,   ttu=1
          - When hash=1Mb    tts=1048576,  ttu=2
          - When hash=2Mb    tts=2097152,  ttu=3
          - When hash=4Mb    tts=4194304,  ttu=4
          - When hash=8Mb    tts=8388608,  ttu=5
          - When hash=16Mb   tts=16777216, ttu=6
          - When hash=32Mb   tts=33554432, ttu=7
          - When hash=64Mb   tts=67108864, ttu=8 

It's been a long time since I played with this so I can't remember if every version of CM allows every size of hash. I vaguely remember CM9 and CM10 had a smaller max size than CM11 but I might be wrong.

Graham

[towforce]

If you want to know anything about Chessmaster, I'm your person. However, I had never heard about the "tutorial running too fast" issue, particularly since they use audio so I can't see how that's possible.

I'm talking about a version that precedes audio - unless you're talking about beeps.

[Wilhelm]

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[Wilhelm]

Hi all,

Regarding the CM opening books, I wrote some programs that will convert files between Arena books (ABK) and CM books (OBK). So you could load the PGN you want into Arena and then convert that into ChessMaster. They also do Polyglot files (BIN) but transferring out of BIN to anything else is a problem as the move sequences need to be recreated, and that can be difficult with large books. I never tidied them up so they are still simple command line tools.

https://goneill.co.nz/chess.php

That page also has my program that obtains the OPK key CM uses as a lock and transfers it into Arena. That program also has an option to output the settings for the selected personality, so if you are patient enough you could go through each player and transfer all of them to Arena.

Also, Graham's settings for the personalities above are missing a couple of flags:

Code: Select all

         Hash settings (tts and ttu)
          - When hash=0      tts=4096,     ttu=0
          - When hash=512Kb  tts=524288,   ttu=1
          - When hash=1Mb    tts=1048576,  ttu=2
          - When hash=2Mb    tts=2097152,  ttu=3
          - When hash=4Mb    tts=4194304,  ttu=4
          - When hash=8Mb    tts=8388608,  ttu=5
          - When hash=16Mb   tts=16777216, ttu=6
          - When hash=32Mb   tts=33554432, ttu=7
          - When hash=64Mb   tts=67108864, ttu=8 

It's been a long time since I played with this so I can't remember if every version of CM allows every size of hash. I vaguely remember CM9 and CM10 had a smaller max size than CM11 but I might be wrong.

Graham

With the correct wb2uci.exe you don't need this. You can set the hash size in the GUI, this works for me.
I added the latest wb2uci in my link section on my homepage.

[OPTIONS]
Program=TheKing350.exe
InitString=cm_parm default\ncm_parm opk=208098 opp=113 opn=117 opb=118 opr=116 opq=121 myp=113 myn=117 myb=118 myr=116 myq=121 mycc=114 mymob=116 myks=131 mypp=115 mypw=114 opcc=114 opmob=116 opks=131 oppp=115 oppw=114 cfd=0 sop=100 avd=0 rnd=0 sel=20 md=99
HashCommand=cm_parm tts=%i004096
Priority=Below
Visible=Ponder,Hash

[JVMerlino]

If you want to know anything about Chessmaster, I'm your person. However, I had never heard about the "tutorial running too fast" issue, particularly since they use audio so I can't see how that's possible.

I'm talking about a version that precedes audio - unless you're talking about beeps.

Ah, that was before my time. It would have to have been before CM5500.

[towforce]

If you want to know anything about Chessmaster, I'm your person. However, I had never heard about the "tutorial running too fast" issue, particularly since they use audio so I can't see how that's possible.

I'm talking about a version that precedes audio - unless you're talking about beeps.

Ah, that was before my time. It would have to have been before CM5500.

Indeed it was: as best I remember, it was version 2100.

[Rubinus]

Indeed it was: as best I remember, it was version 2100.

Hopefully I could find CM2000 somewhere in my backups. I used to have a video game cartridge with CM program, but the chip was probably 4bit and it played accordingly.