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Subject: Re: How do you get FRITZ to practice an ENDGAME properly???

Author: Eran

Date: 04:32:37 02/16/02

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On February 16, 2002 at 07:12:09, oliver maitland wrote:

>Does anyone know how I can get Fritz to play a decent bit of endgame practice?
>For example, I want to practice my endgame as a lone black king against a white
>King + Pawn.  I want to practice how to draw, or recognize when it is a loss.
>
>The problem is that when I setup a position with these peices, Fritz will always
>make a stupid move that allows me to take the pawn.
>
>
>I have Fritz 6 and the tablebases are on the CD.
>
>I haven't installed the tablebases to my hard drive (to save space) but I get
>this problem even when I launch Fritz from the CD.  I've tried TOOLS > ENGINE
>and ticking the USE TABLEBASES box but that still doesn't stop Fritz playing
>like a muppet.
>
>I have the program set as follows:  FILE > NEW > SPARRING and have it set on
>"point out wins" and "really hard".
>
>I'm not sure what else I should be doing.  I thought Fritz should be able to
>access the tablebases on the CD but it clearly isn't.
>
>Anyone able to help?
>
>--- Timefruit

I don't think Fritz uses tablebases in sparring mode. Also, sparring mode has a
bug.

Eran




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