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Subject: Re: What's wrong? Fritz or TB's?!

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 13:21:59 03/21/01

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On March 21, 2001 at 15:58:38, Slater Wold wrote:
>Now.  Something has gone wrong, either with Fritz reading the TB's, or the TB's
>themselves.  Had Fritz just simply advanced the pawn, promoting it, then it was
>a simple win most 1500 player could handle.  But for some reason, it wanted to
>chase the king around!  The first thing I did, was do a scandisk and check for
>any corrupted TB files.  There are none.  Then I compared my 5 piece TB size to
>Hyatts on his server.  They are both the same.  So I would venture to say,
>either Fritz had a problem reading it, or the KRPKR file is corrupt.  (However I
>think Hyatt would have caught it by now.)  I have had several positions, where I
>look @ the board, and say, "I COULD MATE THIS!"  and Fritz draws.  WHY?  I was
>just curious if anyone else had the problem, and if anyone knew what the problem
>was.
>
>Thanks,
>Slate
>
>Also, if you look from #43 to #17 (the second one) the depth is always 1.
>However, then it starts seeing depth 5!  With TB's (usually) it documents 1 ply
>only!!

This definitely would be a good one for a CCC FAQ . This happens if you have
KRPKR on your harddisk ( which comes with the Fritz CD ) but not the subsets
KRQKR , KRBKR et al .

The problem is program knows KRPKR with the pawn on b7 is mate in 17 or so ; it
also knows promoting the pawn it will be worse than that ( as it can't find this
in a TB anymore ) . So this can be healed if you download the missing ones ( if
you have enough space on your harddisk ) .



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