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Subject: Re: Technical prob: Fritz6 and KQPKQ EGTB ...

Author: Marc Bourzutschky

Date: 19:04:06 02/03/03

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On February 03, 2003 at 20:17:31, GuyHaworth wrote:

>
>Anyone know anything about this small problem...?
>
>I'm looking at some deep KQPKQ positions with Fritz6 and EN's EGTB.
>
>On White-to-move, there is no problem:  I see the position's DTM depth.
>
>For Black to move, sometimes I see the DTM and sometimes I see instead an
>'evaluation' to 2 decimal places. Behaviour is consistent:  either the btm
>position shows depth correctly, or shows the spurious 'eval number'.
>
>The KQPKQ EGT has been down-loaded twice:  no difference.
>
>My Fritz6 has not been updated since bought some years ago:  are there any
>update packages?
>
>Fritz loads ok - which it doesn't do (afaik) if the EGTB is corrupted in some
>way.
>
>Thanks in advance ... guy

Make sure you have all the relevant subgames.  For example, if you don't have
KQPK the machine might think it can "improve" on getting mated by sacrificing
its queen for a large negative score.

-Marc



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