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Subject: Re: Fritz 9 handicapping UCI engines even more?

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 08:56:38 10/05/05

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On October 05, 2005 at 11:49:49, Henrik Dinesen wrote:

>On October 05, 2005 at 10:47:48, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>On October 05, 2005 at 07:38:30, Henrik Dinesen wrote:
>>
>>>On October 05, 2005 at 07:12:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>Do I understand this German post correcly:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/134294.htm
>>>>
>>>>i.e. Fritz 9 turns off critical options in UCI engines, specifically Fruit???
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>GCP
>>>
>>>It only talks about the latest beta-GUI, that sends wrong setting info.
>>>Where else this applies, I can't see from that tread.
>>>
>>>Probably Joachim can expalin more about it.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Henrik
>>
>>
>>Jochim did say that the cat is out of the bag, and probably won't comment on it
>>any more.  However, let's say that Fruit's history pruning option in the
>>September 9 CB GUI is simply turned off when you restart the game and keeps
>>being turned off till you restart the program. On average this bring overall
>>strength quite substantially...
>>
>>Something like this goes on ( snippets out of the CB gui log):
>>
>>0.078: < option name History Pruning type check default true
>>28.281: > setoption name History Pruning value false
>>
>>
>>Etc.
>>
>>
>>Djordje
>
>Yes, not too smart. Though, I suppose it's a bug...
>
>Regards
>Henrik


Yes, it must be a bug which can be corrected. I have no doubts about any kind of
premeditation, especially because Fruit 2.2 did not appear till Sept. 29, and
the GUI update came out on Sept. 9.

Djordje



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