Chessmaster 8000

version 1.02

company: MindScape (www.mindscape.com)

homesite: www.chessmaster.com

Version 1.0.2 addresses numerous issues, including:

-- Fixed a bug created by v1.0.1 with Custom Boards not displaying 
properly.

-- Fixed a memory leak in the audio playing code that was used by 
Tutorials, Josh Waitzkin's annotated games, Natural Language Advice, 
and Game Analysis.

-- Fixed a mouse cursor problem in the Set Up Position feature that 
could cause the incorrect cursor to be displayed, or cause the mouse 
cursor to disappear completely.

-- Added a "Send Engine Command" context menuitem to the XBoard 
Output Monitor windows for expert users.

-- Added a special INI file setting for expert users, allowing them 
to override the amount of memory allocated for the mentor engine's 
transposition table.

-- Fixed a bug in the Opening Book Editor in which making a move on 
the board could create a duplicate move in the current opening book, 
if the move already existed.

-- Fixed a bug in the Import PGN feature of the Opening Book Editor 
in which setting the color to use to "White" created frequencies for 
both colors.

-- Improved the error message reporting for loading PGN games and 
the Import PGN feature of the Opening Book Editor.

-- Further improved the WinBoard protocol parser to allow a few more 
engines to work properly.



Version 1.0.1 addresses numerous issues, most notably:

-- Greatly improved time usage by the engine in the "Moves per 
Minutes" time control.
-- Fixed a problem with the "Seconds per Move" time control, in 
which the wrong amount of time to use was being sent to the 
engine(s).
-- Fixed a bug that could cause the computer to hang (or appear to 
hang) if sound failed to initialize during startup.
-- Fixed a bug that occurred on some machines in which Thematic and 
Simple piece movement sounds would only play if Chessmaster was not 
the active application.
-- Fixed a bug that involved a failure to recognize a 3-fold 
repetition draw in certain circumstances.
-- Fixed a bug involving fast-moving computer personalities (such as 
Max and Lacey) in which the personality could stop responding and 
eventually lose on time.
-- Fixed three Windows-2000/NT specific crashes.
-- Made some modifications to the Winboard protocol parser that 
allow several more XBoard engines to work properly with Chessmaster.
-- Fixed a bug that would cause The King engine to stop thinking 
after only reaching 1024 positions. This bug would only occur with 
certain combinations of Time Zone settings (Adelaide, Brasilia and 
Santiago at least) and versions of Windows.
-- Fixed several bugs that could cause evaluation scores to be 
signed improperly in either the Thinking Lines window or after Game 
Analysis.
-- Fixed a bug that would prevent game annotations to be saved in 
the PGN format, copied to the clipboard or printed.

Be sure to read the ReadMe file that is installed with the patch for 
complete details about bug fixes and feature additions in this 
upgrade.
