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Subject: Re: enormous blunder by F8 that I cannot duplicate

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 13:42:26 12/25/02

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On December 25, 2002 at 16:36:00, eric guttenberg wrote:

>This is the blunder at g/30 on my 1.3ghz computer
>
>Eric                Fritz 8
>
>
>1.e4                 e6
>2.d4                 d5
>3.Nb1-c3             Bf8-b4
>4.e5                 c5
>5.a3                 Bb4xc3ch
>6.b2xc3              Ng8-e7
>7.Ng1-f3             Qd8-c7
>8.Bc1-d2             0-0
>9.Bf1-d3             c4????????
>
>...which loses badly...of course...
>
>Now what in the world could cause this kind of blunder?
>
> I tried repeatedly
>to get Fritz to do it again but it would not. It would not even consider
>8...O-O. as well as 9...c4.  Again and again it would not. But what could
>cause that blunder to occur in the first place?
>
>eric

There are at least three possibilities:

1) You have not deactivated permanent brain
2) Fritz8 has used his learning function
3) Hashtable collision

Kurt

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