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Subject: Re: Fritz 8 blunders in drawn endgame : Does your program do the same?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 22:14:22 02/16/03

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On February 16, 2003 at 11:01:49, Roy Brunjes wrote:

>
>In a game between Fritz 8 and a custom personality of mine for CM9000, the
>following position arose in a 15/10 game:
>
>[D] 5Q2/8/2p4k/1p1pP3/8/6KP/8/q7 b - - 0 45
>
>Black here should easily draw with ... Kh7.  Fritz 8 thinks for almost 30
>seconds on my Athlon 700 MHz machine and plays ... Kh5 and scores the position
>as 0.00 expecting a draw.
>
>CM9000 immediately shows evals nearly one pawn in its favor and after a few more
>moves, Fritz shows an eval of more than 4 pawns in White's favor.
>
>Curious that Fritz would err so greatly in a simple position.  Is it a bug or is
>it explainable some other way?
>
>Roy


Fritz 8 on my Celeron@1539MHz needs 1min27 to evaluate -0.28 (d=14/48) for Kh5
and finds Kh7 better after 1min37.
Where is the problem? That F8 does not find it instantly?




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