Author: pavel
Date: 00:43:19 08/31/00
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On August 31, 2000 at 03:26:44, Christoph Fieberg wrote: >Interesting posting from a chess newsgroup. Is Fritz 4.01 indeed so vulnerable? >Who can help Taylor? >Regards, >Christoph > >Subject: Weird position kills Fritz!! >From: kingstont@aol.com (Kingston T) >Date: 2000/08/28 >Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc > >Back on 10 August, I read a posting from Christoph Fieberg (fieberg@cologne.de) >announcing that he had composed a position which caused problems for Fritz6. >In Forsythe notation, the position was: > >8/8/pppppppK/NBBR1NRp/nbbrqnrP/PPPPPPPk/8/Q7. W > >Though the position is absurd, it is legal, and a mate in one for White that >most players would spot in seconds. Fieberg said that on his machine Fritz6 >took over an hour to solve it, and asked "How do other computers react?" > >I will tell you how Fritz 4.01 reacted to it on my computers: FRITZ DIED!! I >set up this position, clicked "infinite analysis", and Fritz immediately froze >up. I had to use ctrl-alt-delete to free the machine. After that, Fritz was >crippled! It could no longer analyze, either in "play" or "infinite analysis" >mode. It just sits there doing nothing. Only the opening book, database and >similar non-calculative functions still worked. > >Thinking this might have been merely a coincidental catastrophe, I tried the >position on a different machine loaded with the same Fritz 4.01. Same result: >Fritz kaput. Furthermore, I have have so far been unable to restore Fritz to >full functionality since then, even after re-installing from the CD. > >Therefore I would like to warn other potential victims about the risks of this >experiment, and would like to ask: can any technolgicially savvy reader offer >me some help in getting Fritz 4.01 restored to health? Please respond by >e-mail, serious replies only. > >Taylor Kingston I think fritz 4.01 is a bit old to handle such a "big risk" :)) pavel
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