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Subject: Re: It is a Fritzbug.

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 14:49:52 02/02/00

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On February 02, 2000 at 17:41:35, Paulo Soares wrote:

>On February 02, 2000 at 17:35:55, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba 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
>>
>>	This looks like a classic null-move problem to me: 1. c5 b5 2. a3 and black
>>is in zugzwang, if black is allowed to pass at this point it is not a mate in
>>three.
>>José.
>
>Yes, if you put selectivity=0, Fritz5.32 found the mate.
>
>Paulo Soares, from Brazil

	Does selectivity=0 disable null-move in Fritz? It seems that the new Fritz 6a
has some sort of zugzwang detection.

José, from México.



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