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Subject: Re: Which program to buy?

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 12:45:08 12/03/01

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On December 03, 2001 at 11:22:05, William Penn wrote:

>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

LOL you have several days to spend on a buggy program, but not 5min to download
the upgrade that takes care of the bugs??!!

(snip)
In the meantime I would
encourage them to try to improve Fritz 7's Queen-play...
(snip)

They did already in the upgrade...........................

Regards
Jonas




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