Author: Harald Faber
Date: 00:46:46 03/24/99
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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 don't have F532 here in my office but I can say that starting with Fritz4 there ALWAYS have been some problems with the EG-DB access. AFAIK NO PATCH or upgrade solved ALL blunders. They corrected some known problems but in some other positions they were stil buggy.
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