Author: Paul Petersson
Date: 06:08:45 02/24/98
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On February 23, 1998 at 13:50:55, Andreas Mader wrote: > >On February 23, 1998 at 13:27:57, Paul Petersson wrote: > >> >>The main problem with testing Fritz5 is the autoplayer. It doesn´t >>function very well. Not only does Fritz crash and hang occasionally, it >>sometimes crash the opponent as well. This happend to me when Fritz >>played against Nimzo98. Only a Ctrl-Alt-Del, and killing Nimzo would get >>out of the hang, same with Fritz. Fritz autoplayer doesn´t work in >>exactly the same manner as Donningers does. Instead of playing a preset >>number of games with either white or black, Fritz always starts with >>white, and when the game is over it switches colours so the opponent >>plays white the next game. This goes on until the tester interrupts the >>testing. > >Sorry for beeing suspicious, but does Fritz only crash when it is in a >weaker position....? Would be interesting to know. > No. It usually hangs near the end, and most often in won positions. I´m going through some of then games to see if I can find some pattern that can explain what happend. Right now I have a feeling it can have someting to do with Fritz tournament timecontrol. I don´t think I have had a hang before move 40 or 60. >Another point: Is the SSDF only testing commercial versions of a >program? Is Fritz 5 - the one you are testing with - a commercial >version? Or is it an improved version that noone can buy? > It seems to be the one that comes on the same CD as the new Junior engine. The Fritz5.exe is different but that probably has to do with the autoplayer. >I think that the SSDF is doing a great job, but could it be that the >Fritz guys "outbooked" you with a couple of tricks????? I hope not! (And I don´t think so). Paul > >Andreas
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