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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 (with MMX) analysis is buggy!

Author: Robin Smith

Date: 14:53:02 11/09/01

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On November 09, 2001 at 17:29:53, William Penn wrote:

>On November 09, 2001 at 14:09:18, Robin Smith wrote:
>
>>
>>I have seen Shredder 5 show PV's that look like giveaway chess, throwing away
>>piece after piece for no good reason.  As I understand it, some programs have
>>trouble reconstructing a PV from hash tables.  The PV's and position eval end up
>>having nothing in common, with only the eval and 1st move of the PV being valid.
>> This could be what you are seeing with Fritz7.
>>
>>-rs
>
>That is NOT what I am seeing with Fritz 7 (with MMX)! I have also used Shredder,
>and as with other engines, sometimes the moves late in an analysis line are
>weak. But I haven't seen serious outright blunders such as giving away the
>Queen. Only Fritz 7 (with MMX) can accomplish that little trick!
>WP

I HAVE seen Shredder 5 give away MORE than a queen in the PV (a queen AND some
other pieces) and not always at the end of the PV.  I guess we just haven't been
looking at the same positions.

-rs



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