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Subject: Re: What is "Fail High!"?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:46:26 08/09/00

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On August 09, 2000 at 12:36:44, Eran wrote:

>
>When my Fritz6a began to stage the engine tournament, a message appeared and
>said, "Fail High!". At the same time, my computer strangely wrote to the hard
>disk from time to time. I did not know whether my computer would do it
>indefinitely.
>
>What is "Fail High!"? Is that bad? Is something wrong with Fritz6a? Since I am
>not a programmer, please explain that to me very clearly.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Eran

Fail high happens only when there is a big change in the evaluation and the
computer becomes more optimistic about the position of it.
Fail high is something good.

Uri



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