Author: eric guttenberg
Date: 22:36:04 03/23/99
Is anyone else experiencing weird behavior from the Fritz 5.32 endgame CD?
Example 1: White-pawn on a7,rook on a6 and king on b4
Black-king on e4, queen on d1
Black (Fritz) to move
This is evidentally a drawn position and there are any number of moves
Black can safely make. At this point the endgame CD kicked in and made
K-d3?????, which loses immediately. I removed the CD,tried the same
position and Fritz without the CD made Q-d4 ch. When I put the CD back
in, Fritz then had a new idea---- Q-h5,which obviously is not very good
either.
Example 2: White-pawn on b6, rook on d5, king on e6
Black-queen on d1, king on e2
White (Fritz) to move
The win is easy with Rxd1, the move Fritz makes without the CD. But
when this position came up with the endgame CD in, Fritz moved R-c5??
When I tried it again the next day it made the right move with the
German-speaking CD but repeated the blunder with the English-speaking
CD. The blunders in example 1 occured with either CD. No such blunders
occurred when the CD's were not in.
These are just two examples and the curious thing is the blunders are
not always repeated. In any event I would like to know if my CD's
are unique or has anyone else come across this? In the meantime, I am
not using the endgame CD anymore
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