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Subject: Re: It seems to be a bug only in analyze or mate settings

Author: Georg Langrath

Date: 14:00:32 02/02/00

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On February 02, 2000 at 15:55:15, Ernst Walet wrote:

>On February 02, 2000 at 15:34:32, Georg Langrath wrote:
>
>>On February 02, 2000 at 13:04:57, Rob Shultz wrote:
>>
>>>I ran the following position on Fritz 5.32 and even after 40 minutes it did not
>>>see the win!  I was using a PII 450.  Junior 5.0 saw the win right away.  Is
>>>there some setting I could have changed to cause Fritz to miss this?
>>>
>>>[D]3n4/8/pppN4/k7/2P5/1K6/P7/8 w - -
>>>
>>>The win follows c5.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Rob
>>
>>It is a bug. As it is a mate in 3 it should be found instantly. Neither newest
>>Fritz 6, nor mate search program in Fritz find it. I have also tried earlier
>>versions of Fritz with the same bad result.
>>
>>Georg
>
>
>But this is what Fritz6a does over here, zero seconds, mate in 3.
>
>Ernst-J.
>
>New position
>3n4/8/pppN4/k7/2P5/1K6/P7/8 w - - 0 1
>
>Analysis by Fritz 6:
>
>1.c5
>  ²  (0.59)   Depth: 7/11   00:00:00  1kN
>1.c5!
>  +-  (1.72)   Depth: 10/16   00:00:00  10kN
>1.c5!
>  +-  (3.19)   Depth: 11/18   00:00:00  22kN
>1.c5!
>  +-  (#3)   Depth: 12/18   00:00:00  43kN

I tried it in analyze and mate settings before. When I now try it in
time-settings it works as you have described.

Georg



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