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Subject: Re: GENIUS6.5 not available ?

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 14:00:05 07/13/02

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On July 12, 2002 at 19:33:29, Mike S. wrote:

>On July 12, 2002 at 19:07:51, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>(...) just as the Gold edition itself ( 6.0 was very buggy though) . I think
>>the Gold edition is really a very cool CD , and if I had
>>to choose just one Genius version I'd simply take this one and happily throw
>>away all the rest. Genius 5 works fine with Windows XP, too.
>
>The Gold Edition is also the latest Genius I have (btw. there was a Gold
>*Collection* too, which included some older versions as a bonus).
>
>On this occasion I'd like to ask something I was thinking about recently: Do you
>know if Genius 5 (or -98 of the Gold Edition) still had that bug, where in a
>certain type of endgame the engine avoided to exchange queens when it should
>exchange (or vice versa)? I forgot any details, where to find the example, and
>for which version that was fixed...
>
>Danke, mfg.
>Michael Scheidl

I think you refer to an article by Chrilly Donninger on bugs that was published
in CSS magazin one or two years ago. This bug wasn't present in Genius 2 anymore
which was the version I tried.



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