Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:33:09 07/11/03
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On July 11, 2003 at 17:14:56, Luis Smith wrote: >Hello everyone, > > Last night I played a few games between Fritz 8 and Shredder 7.04. Fritz >was well on its way to mate Shredder, it promoted the pawn, but then after >playing weird moves in a mate position it accepted a draw! I am not sure if it >offered the draw or if Shredder did. > >Question > >Should I: > >a)Change the draw claim to a win for Fritz >b)Replay the game >c)Throw the game out? > >Thanks for the input >Luis Smith It is very likely a problem (bug? -- user error?) involving EGDBs. After 64...Kxf3, Chessmaster 9000 sees a forced mate in 8 in four seconds on my humble P3-733, so there's no reason that Fritz shouldn't have been able to do the same unless it got confused by either incomplete or faulty EGDBs, IMO. jm
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