Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 14:30:44 03/21/01
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On March 21, 2001 at 17:00:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 21, 2001 at 16:21:59, Peter Berger wrote: > >>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 ) . > > >Or if Frans would just fix the program. :) He, he... I remember when you resisted to do so for quite a while.. :)
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