Author: blass uri
Date: 09:31:48 04/01/99
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On April 01, 1999 at 08:19:57, James T. Walker wrote: >On April 01, 1999 at 06:24:43, Sylvain Renard wrote: > >>On March 31, 1999 at 18:01:28, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>Hello again Sylvain, >>>Obviously you know more about these things than I do. As I said in an earlier >>>post I'm not a programmer or even a good chess player. But I still keep coming >>>back to the CD ROM as the problem. I don't know if Fritz uses Ken Thompsons >>>database or what. Fritz does not do a normal "search" on this move. Fritz >>>seems to read the CD ROM and then make the wrong move. The info which shows up >>>in the move window indicates Fritz has incorrect information about the value of >>>the moves in the move list. Where do these values come from? All moves have a >>>score of draw so it does not matter which one it plays. Evidently the first >>>move "generated" or looked at is f8=B and it plays that move. >> Hello again, >>when reading the databases, if the position reached is not found, Fritz has to >>assume it is a draw. What else could it do? I think they did not think >>it was useful to include all the files resulting from an underpromotion. >> >> >>>Fritz 5.32 with >>>the Fritz 5.32 CD ROM does not play that move. It correctly has the score as >>>(8) 1.f8=R. Why does Fritz play the move correctly with the new CD ROM but >>>incorrectly with the old CD ROM? >> ?? I must have the old CD ROM because my Fritz 5.32 shows 0 as the score >>after f8=R. Could you look at the files in the root directory of your CD >>and tell me if the file Rr_r.g is present on your CD? Thank you. >> >>> Fritz does not go back to a regular search >>>routine untill after the f8=B move. >> This is a bug on my Fritz5.32 because it has the file Rb_r.g on the CD >>and does not use it when you enter a corresponding position. >> >> Best regards, >> Sylvain > >Hello again Sylvain, >Have you updated to the "March SP1" at Chessbase/Germany? Anyway here is a list >of all endgame files on my CD ROM. >Pq_q.g >Pr_r.g >Q_pr.g >Qr_q.g >Qr_r.g >Rb_r.g >Rn_r.g many files are missing here. this files do not contain QN vs Q , QB vs Q or QQ vs Q positions(possible results of the first file) It does not contain RQ vs R(possible results of the second file) It does not contain Q vs RN,Qvs RB, Qvs RR(possible results of the third file) Uri
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