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Subject: Re: Fritz 8 boxed copy for giveaway (!)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:40:18 06/29/03

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On June 29, 2003 at 03:06:45, Thom Perry wrote:

>Does CM9000 automatically log its analysis when you play a game against the
>program?  I too am extremely disappointed in Fritz, although the version I
>bought is 6.0.  I liked the automatic logging feature in M-Chess Pro and do not
>like having Fritz reanalyze the game in order to find out what it was thinking
>about.  What a waste of time.  Also, I do not like the 10-ply limit for its
>analysis.  What good does it do to announce mate in 12 but only show the first 5
>moves for each side?  And speaking of mate announcements, if Fritz 6 announces a
>mate, say mate in 8 for example but a mate in 5 actually exists, then it will
>NEVER NEVER see it, no matter how long you let it think.  I think that Fritz
>actually stops analyzing after finding a mate but can't prove it because Fritz
>doesn't display its thinking nodes like M-Chess Pro.

It is clear that it stops to analyze after finding a mate or after finishing the
iteration when it finds mate.

I suspect that you can prove it by task manager that is going to tell you that
Fritz does not use cpu time.

This is logical because the programmer does not need to care about new bugs
and if the programmer is not a very good programmer(in the ability to implement
ideas without bugs) then he may prefer not to care about this problem.

Maybe the programmer of Fritz(Frans morsch) is simply inferior programmer
relative to other programmers in that meaning.

I guess that Frans had no reason not to fix the problem in case that he believes
that it is a job with expected time of one hour for him.

Uri



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