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

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 14:29:52 03/21/01

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On March 21, 2001 at 15:58:38, Slater Wold wrote:

>I recently played a game on FICS against Vippcomputers.  Here is the game:
>
>
>
>Fritz 6 - PC [B81]
>(2), 21.03.2001
>[-0.41]
>
> 64MB, book.ctg. Slate-SERVERA
> 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g4 h6 7.h4 Nc6 8.Rg1 h5 9.gxh5
>Nxh5 10.Bg5 Nf6 11.Be2 a6 12.Qd2 Qb6 13.Nb3 Bd7 14.h5 Nxh5 15.Rh1 g6 16.0-0-0
>Qxf2 17.e5 Qf5 18.exd6 Qxg5 19.Qxg5 Bh6 20.Qxh6 Rxh6 21.Ne4 0-0-0 22.Nf6 Ne5
>23.Rh4 Bc6 last book move 24.Na5  -0.41/12  39  Rdh8 25.Ng4  -0.12/12  18  Nxg4
>26.Rxg4  0.00/12  3  Nf6 27.Nxc6  0.00/13  0  bxc6 28.Ra4  0.00/13  9  Rh2
>29.Bf3  0.06/13  5  Nd5 30.Rxa6  -0.09/13  29  Kb7 31.Ra3  -0.06/12  18  R2h4
>32.Bg2  -0.09/11  17  f5 33.Rg3  -0.12/11  11  R8h6 34.Re1  0.47/12  11  f4
>35.Rd3  0.59/13  0  g5 36.c4  0.34/11  10  Kc8 37.cxd5  0.63/12  21  exd5 38.Re7
> 1.28/12  17  Rxd6 39.Rh3  0.97/13  0  Rd7 40.Re6  1.00/13  4  Rxh3 41.Bxh3
>1.03/14  0  Kc7 42.Rg6  1.03/15  0  Re7 43.Rxg5  1.06/14  0  Re3 44.Rg7+
>1.16/13  0  Kd6 45.Bc8  1.22/12  0  c5 46.Kd2  1.25/12  15  c4 47.Rf7  1.50/12
>3  Rf3 48.Bg4  1.53/12  7  Rd3+ 49.Kc2  1.44/13  12  Ke5 50.Rf5+  1.59/13  15
>Ke4 51.Rh5  1.34/13  13  Rg3 52.Be6  0.81/13  46  f3 53.b4  0.94/12  16  cxb3+
>54.axb3  0.06/13  43  Rg2+ 55.Kc3  0.31/13  14  d4+ 56.Kb4  0.25/14  7  Rg3
>57.Bd5+  0.31/13  14  Ke3 58.Re5+  0.28/14  0  Kd2 59.Rf5  0.06/14  13  Ke3
>60.Rf8  0.31/13  11  f2 61.Bc4  0.47/14  0  Rh3 62.Re8+  0.91/12  7  Kf4 63.Kc5
>0.97/12  3  d3 64.Kb4  -0.09/12  26  Kg5 65.Rg8+  1.69/12  5  Kf4 66.Rf8+
>1.84/12  5  Ke3 67.Bxd3  1.91/13  6  Kxd3 68.Rxf2  #46/6  0  Rh8 69.Rf4  #45/1
>0  Rc8 70.Rc4  #43/1  0  Ra8 71.Rc5  #40/1  0  Kd4 72.Ra5  #39/1  0  Rg8 73.Ka4
>#38/1  0  Rg1 74.b4  #37/1  0  Ra1+ 75.Kb5  #36/1  0  Rh1 76.Ra6  #35/1  0  Kc3
>77.Ra3+  #34/1  0  Kd4 78.Rg3  #33/1  0  Rh8 79.Ka6  #31/1  1  Rh6+ 80.Ka5
>#30/1  0  Rh2 81.Rg5  #28/1  0  Ra2+ 82.Kb6  #27/1  0  Ke4 83.b5  #26/1  0  Rc2
>84.Kb7  #25/1  0  Kf4 85.Rd5  #24/1  0  Ke4 86.Rh5  #23/1  0  Kf4 87.b6  #22/1
>0  Kg4 88.Ra5  #20/1  0  Kf4 89.Ka7  #19/1  0  Rd2 90.b7  #17/1  0  Rd8 91.Ra4+
>#17/5  0  Ke5 92.Ra5+  #17/5  0  Kf4 93.Ra1  #17/6  0  Kf3 94.Ra4  #17/5  0  Re8
>95.Rb4  #17/5  0  Ke3 96.Ra4  #16/5  0  Kf3 97.Ra3+  #18/5  0  Ke4 98.Ra4+
>#17/5  0  Kf3 ½-½
>
>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!!

There is nothing wrong with Fritz except you are missing the KRQKR tablebase.
If you had that tablebase Fritz would promote to a Queen and announce mate in 16
instantly.
Jim



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