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Subject: Re: Fritz5 doesn't find this 'mate-in-2'!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 16:53:24 06/17/98

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On June 17, 1998 at 19:03:49, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On June 17, 1998 at 18:28:34, Helmut Winkler wrote:
>
>>8/8/6Q1/8/8/7k/3p1pp1/3Kbrrb w - -
>
>Crafty 14.8p6 does not find the mate either, the latest Winboard versions of
>Comet and Patzer do so instantly... Don't know about the latest Crafties. It
>seems that the problem is the old one, present in all the Fritzes so far -- the
>null-move and the zugzwang...
>
>Regards,
>
>Djordje

Of course not. It's a nullmove problem. I get kind of sick of this kind of
problems. Everyone knows that fritz5 does use nullmove without
zugzwang detection. so does crafty, so what is your problem
Helmut?

You don't need to test those problems even on it, know
before you test the problem that it doesn't find it.

Vincent.



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