Author: William Penn
Date: 21:59:06 12/02/01
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On December 02, 2001 at 19:59:35, Gordon Rattray wrote: >On December 02, 2001 at 12:30:41, William Penn wrote: > >>On December 02, 2001 at 11:45:48, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On December 02, 2001 at 02:57:47, William Penn wrote: >>> >>>>I would just caution against Fritz 7 for analysis. From what I hear it doesn't >>>>work right. >>> >>>This simply isn't true. >>> >>>The program works perfectly fine for analysis. >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >>Once again we have disinformation from GCP, who defends this software to the >>death. >>WP > >Yes, we've been here before... If GCP thinks that it is fine for analysis, then > fair enough. However, there are more than one of us (including myself) who >have seen good enough reasons to think otherwise. I've seen Fritz7 pondering on >the opponent giving away a queen (not a sacrifice; just an absolute blunder). >It wasn't many plies deep, just an immediate loss. That is not "perfectly >fine". > >Gordon Yep, I saw it often enough to trash the Fritz 7 (with MMX) engine. Maybe the newer version Fritz 7a (or whatever) is better. I haven't tried it. The Fritz 7 (no MMX) engine doesn't dump the Queen. However I have noticed some peculiar endgame weaknesses with it too when there are active Queens, so I suspect that both Fritz 7 engines have bugs in their algorithms related to active Queen play. If they want to improve something, that's one place they should look... WP
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