Author: blass uri
Date: 23:19:05 03/23/99
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On March 24, 1999 at 01:36:04, eric guttenberg wrote: >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 I do not have Fritz5.32 but only Fritz5(16 bit) My Fritz cd also shows Rc5 instead of Rxd1 Fritz simply cannot believe that the side with less material can win and this is the reason for these mistakes. Uri
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