Author: William Penn
Date: 08:22:05 12/03/01
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On December 03, 2001 at 07:31:18, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >On December 03, 2001 at 00:59:06, William Penn wrote: > >>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 > >We all know that Fritz 7 was buggy, but the upgrade to Fritz 7a or version >1.0.0.2 takes care of that, the fact that you have not even bothered to upgrade >makes your statement look kind'a foolish. > >Regards >Jonas Well, I'm a very busy person with free time hard to find. I spent several days with Fritz 7 and it was just too buggy to be worth my further consideration. I have a lot of more important (to me) things to do. Maybe I'll look at update versions after a several month hiatus, maybe not. In the meantime I would encourage them to try to improve Fritz 7's Queen-play... WP
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