Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:03:55 03/21/01
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On March 21, 2001 at 18:14:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On March 21, 2001 at 17:30:44, Andrew Dados wrote:
>
>>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.. :)
>
>
>Yep... Users are generally an unreasonable lot. :) They complain when the
>screwdriver handle breaks when it is being used as a hammer. They complain
>when the hammer rips the head off of a screw when it is being used as a
>screwdriver.
>
>With today's disk prices, I can not think of a single reason not to simply use
>all the 3-4-5 piece files. But some insist. :)
Try to install these TB files on a handheld. :)
Christophe
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