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Subject: Re: Follow-up on bug in Fritz 5.32

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 12:04:48 02/18/99

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On February 18, 1999 at 14:29:25, eric guttenberg wrote:

>Several weeks ago I posted info re a bug in Fritz 5.32 where the program
>as black was unable to advance a pawn from the second rank to the first
>rank by moving straight ahead if it also had the option of moving that
>same pawn to the first rank by capturing.  This bug was verified by at
>least two other persons in subsequent posts.
>I thought it might be of interest to note that when I notified Chessbase
>of this problem, they promptly responded with a letter that included
>a new Fritz 5.32 engine that did indeed correct the problem when I
>installed it.

By gosh your right. I set up  the following:

 1st rank  2s,B,3s,K,s
 2nd rank  N,2s,p,4s

And your right the program promoted a queen by capturing the bishop ! which
looses to knight !

I wonder if ChessBase will forward to me and others the corrected engine.



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