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Subject: Re: Alpha/Beta adjustments via the hashtable or why Fritz 7 has messy PV's

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:48:47 12/03/01

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On December 03, 2001 at 00:58:25, Gordon Rattray wrote:

>The online help states that the engine window shows "the best continuation Fritz
>has found so far".  So maybe the "bug" is in the documentation (regarded as part
>of the software).

The description in the manual is not necessarily wrong, but it _would_
have been a lot better to alert the users to the fact that Fritz 7
behaves differently from it's predecessors in this regard.

>Don't blame users for reading the documentation and having
>expectations based upon it.  Your posting isn't included in the online help,
>unfortunately. ;-)

I hope it was useful ;) I used the same technique myself without really
understanding it fully until Vincent Diepeveen and Tony Werten cleared it
up for me.

--
GCP



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