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

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 16:44:09 12/25/02

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On December 25, 2002 at 16:42:26, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>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
>
>Homepage Kurt & Rolf: http://www.beepworld.de/members39/utzinger

Could it be a scratch on the CD (or some kind of skip in the reading)?
S.Taylor



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