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

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 21:23:29 02/03/03

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On February 03, 2003 at 22:04:06, Marc Bourzutschky wrote:

>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

In Shredder 7 or or Fritz 8 this problem is "fixed". When i.e. one move before a
conversion some subendgames are missing the engines do a "normal" search.

Helmut



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